Chapter 1 Is Everything Alright?

Leaving the battlefield, Mu Chen and Mingmei didn't retract their mecha. Instead, they flew around the starship, discreetly activating a private chat.

Mu Chen had been worried when Mingmei used the Zerg Queen's core, remembering she had lost consciousness the last time she used that attack.

Although Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao had exchanged a few words after it ended, Mu Chen had clearly noticed a hint of weakness in Mingmei's tone.

"Are you alright?" Mu Chen asked.

"I'm okay." Mingmei didn't hide anything. "But I have a bit of a headache right now, and I feel vaguely irritable. The Zerg Queen's core energy is like a boundless ocean…"

When she used her mental power to activate the energy in the Zerg Queen's core, her entire spirit was affected, as if she had fallen into a deep sea.

Suffocation, confinement, panic…

She felt like she had just barely struggled ashore from the depths.

The aftereffects of using the Zerg Queen's core were obvious: dizziness, nausea, and a desire to vomit.

"How about you recall Jin Yi, and I'll carry you?" Mu Chen said, and Mingmei's eyes immediately lit up.

She had wanted that for a long time. Looking at her score, Mingmei felt like her future days wouldn't be so peaceful.

Without going into the starship to rest, the two quickly merged their black and white mecha into one under the gazes of the others resting in the starship. Lu Xiaoyao couldn't help but sigh, "An awesome person is truly a good man."

Hu Yue nodded in agreement.

They had witnessed the previous battle. Mu Chen had always been behind Mingmei, providing an explosive sense of security!

Seeing Lu Xiaoyao enviously discussing with those around her, Sun Yunzhong didn't say anything.

He stood on the command platform, staring blankly at the mecha outside the starship.

He had only vaguely known about Mu Chen's feelings for Mingmei before. During the New Year, when someone from the Mu family mentioned Mu Chen and Mingmei, he saw Mu Chen's expression at the time.

Although the elders talked more about Mingmei's family background, Sun Yunzhong clearly saw the undisguised tenderness and joy in Mu Chen's eyes when he mentioned Mingmei.

In this game, he was even more shocked by Mu Chen's attitude toward Mingmei.

He really liked her, silently supporting her every action from behind.

Both of them were powerful, but he also felt that they weren't the kind of people who could easily follow orders.

Especially Mu Chen.

Everything he did was to cooperate with Mingmei's actions.

Sun Yunzhong himself could only communicate with Mingmei, and Mu Chen would cooperate based on her actions.

Their cooperation in battle was indeed outstanding, but their cooperation with the rest of the team… Although Mingmei was willing to cooperate, Sun Yunzhong vaguely felt that if the teammates didn't have enough strength to match them, they would be holding them back.

Just like before, Sun Yunzhong believed that Mingmei could deal with the sickle flies, but he was still worried that if Mingmei fell into a trap, there wouldn't be enough manpower to help her.

At that time, he suddenly realized that without Mu Chen, Mingmei's actions would be greatly limited.

Even though he didn't know what their future would be like, Sun Yunzhong couldn't help but worry about what would happen later.

"My score exploded to over a thousand."

Entering the co-pilot seat of Su Bo, Mingmei immediately collapsed, like a salted fish who had lost her dream.

She was utterly despondent about her score that left everyone else in the dust.

Mu Chen couldn't help but chuckle when he heard this.

"You're still laughing?"

"I'm not laughing."

Glared at by Mingmei, Mu Chen immediately restrained his smile, looked at Mingmei, and said innocently, "Then… in order to be with you, I have to work hard next."

Mu Chen's score was only a little over a hundred right now. He silently calculated that he had to kill nearly two hundred more Zerg alone to catch up with Mingmei, and suddenly felt the pressure.

He really didn't know how many were left at this time.

"Meimei."

"Mm?"

"Do you mind if I leave the team?"

Mingmei was stunned for a moment when she suddenly heard Mu Chen say he was leaving, but then she realized what he was going to do. She pouted and said, "What will happen to everyone else if you leave?"

"If they hear you say that, they will definitely say you look down on them."

"I didn't mean that." Realizing the ambiguity in her words, Mingmei frowned, wanting to explain, but then she heard Mu Chen say, "They need teammates they can trust and fight alongside. I'm not one."

Mu Chen was actually very clear about his own position.

After Mu Chen finished speaking, seeing that Mingmei didn't say anything, he contacted Sun Yunzhong in front of Mingmei to discuss his decision to leave the team and train on his own.

Sun Yunzhong was silent for two seconds, then asked about Mu Chen's situation before agreeing to his departure.

Regarding Mu Chen's departure, some were surprised, some didn't understand, but when they heard that his score had reached more than two hundred, they looked at their own meager scores and didn't say anything.

It wasn't that some people hadn't thought that they would get too few points if they shared these points with everyone, but when they thought about their own strength, they gave up again.

Mu Chen had the confidence and strength to do this, but they weren't suitable for such battles.

After Mu Chen left the team, Mingmei was still a little worried and used the mecha to adjust the view behind her, as if she could take care of them that way.

"Alright~" After watching for a while, Mingmei gave up first, silently turned her gaze back to Mu Chen, and said, "How are you going to find the Zerg? Do you know where they are?"

"I don't know." Mu Chen's tone was relaxed. "But they will find me."

With just him wandering around outside in a mecha, some Zerg would definitely take the bait!

Even if they didn't come immediately, once they confirmed that there was no one around Mu Chen, they would dare to rush up directly.

Then it would be Mu Chen's hunting time.

"Aren't you afraid of being besieged?"

Listening to Mu Chen's Buddhist plan, Mingmei felt it was a bit of a joke.

"If it were outside the game, I would naturally be worried. But this is a game. Those playing the Zerg are ultimately people. I'm just one point, do you think it's necessary to call others to come with me?"

Mingmei: …

It seemed to make sense.

So, soon, Mu Chen demonstrated to Mingmei a scene of people dying for wealth and Zerg dying for points.

Those Zerg who rushed over one after another were all alone, and even if there were two together, they were still solved by Mu Chen.

The most outrageous thing was that Mingmei watched three Zerg start fighting each other under Mu Chen's instigation.

It was outrageous!

So, when Mu Chen's score reached the thousand mark, the game suddenly announced the end.

"Eh? Are the Zerg all gone?"

Mingmei blinked. She originally wanted to go back to Lu Xiaoyao and the others with Mu Chen, but it was over so soon?

But Mingmei thought it was a short time, but in fact, Mu Chen had been fighting for a long time. During this time, Lu Xiaoyao and the others had also fought several battles with the Zerg army.

Casualties were inevitable, but what Lu Xiaoyao and the others regretted was that they didn't meet Jian Yunhe again until the end of the game.

They didn't know if she had survived to the end or had died early.

She secretly hoped that she would be beaten to a pulp by the Zerg played by the veterans!

…

When Mingmei opened her eyes, the noise outside the game pod was so loud that she could hear the loud voices of the players even through the game pod.

"I went! You cleared the level! Awesome! You must have earned a lot of game points, right?"

The strange voice was full of envy, but when she heard the last sentence, Mingmei lay in the game pod and didn't want to get up for a while.

She didn't have any desire to share this, but obviously everyone outside was already discussing the score.

Mingmei had already heard a lot of scattered complaints, and everyone seemed to be hovering around single digits or ten points.

"I went! Lu Xiaoyao, you're so awesome? 66 points?"

Outside her game pod, Mingmei heard someone else's surprise at Lu Xiaoyao's score.

"Aiya, it's just average~"

The humble words carried a slightly smug tone, and Mingmei almost laughed. She could imagine how hateful Lu Xiaoyao must be at this time.

"There are many people in our team with dozens of points, and even some with more than a hundred points! They're so awesome~" While Lu Xiaoyao was speaking, everyone around her was envious again. Mingmei silently lay there, planning to continue resting amidst the heated chat.

"By the way, Boss! How was it after you and Meimei left? Were the Zerg especially scary and difficult to deal with? I, I'm not cursing you, when did you guys come out in the end?"

Mingmei didn't get up, but that didn't mean Mu Chen didn't. He happened to be thirsty, so he sat up and was about to get up to go to the tea room for a drink when he was discovered by Lu Xiaoyao.

In response, Mu Chen said lightly: "I don't know, I only know that the game notified me of the end just after I killed a Zerg."

"Eh?!" Everyone was stunned when they heard this, but Lu Xiaoyao reacted and asked in surprise: "The last Zerg was eliminated by you, Boss?"

"I don't know, maybe there were other people killing Zerg in other corners at that time." Mu Chen didn't say anything too definitive.

"That's about it… hiss, God, didn't you and Meimei encounter Zerg after you left? How…" Lu Xiaoyao didn't dare to ask the question she had for so long.

After all, they themselves had encountered several waves of Zerg, ranging in numbers from dozens to two hundred. In the early stage, they had cooperated well under the command.

But as the probability of encountering Zerg kept increasing, sometimes the fighting was one after another, and they couldn't even catch their breath. Later, there were casualties, otherwise, how could Lu Xiaoyao, who had always been on defense, have such a high score?

Later, when the manpower was lacking, Lu Xiaoyao's scratching attack was also used. She was really stubborn, with an iron body, and used herself as a hammer to fight the Zerg to the death.

Therefore, for Lu Xiaoyao, that part of the memory was simply not worth recalling in detail.

She couldn't even imagine how Mu Chen and Mingmei, with two fists hard to beat four hands, had survived.

"It's okay, the ones we encountered were all stragglers, so they were relatively easy to deal with." After Mu Chen finished speaking, he didn't talk to Lu Xiaoyao much and went directly to the tea room. Lu Xiaoyao wisely didn't ask any more questions and directly asked a few acquaintances how many points everyone had gotten.

For example, Qi Hai Kui, who hadn't been seen in the whole game, Lu Xiaoyao was particularly curious about how many points he had gotten.

"More than twenty points…" Qi Hai Kui looked very quiet at the moment. He and everyone else took on completely opposite roles in the upper and lower halves of the game. It could be said that if he accidentally leaked something, there might be his "enemies" among those present.

"That's not a small amount either."

A student next to him looked at Qi Hai Kui enviously and said sourly: "I was killed by a cannon as soon as the game started when I was a Zerg. Although the pseudo-mother's cub was very powerful in combat, it was useless for the pseudo-mother's cub to kill people when my main body died."

Qi Hai Kui: =.=

If he remembered correctly, he seemed to have blown up a pseudo-mother according to the requirements of those veterans at the beginning?

"Finally, I got the script to be a human. My starship was a giant combat starship with more than a hundred people! I thought that with such a large team, I would be able to score points this time, right?"

The man seemed to regard the quiet Qi Hai Kui as a confidant and complained about his second half of the game, but Qi Hai Kui seemed to already know the ending.

"Who would have thought! The meowing! We met a few Zerg disguised as humans, ah ah ah! Damn it!!"

Qi Hai Kui's eyebrows jumped when he heard this, and he silently melted half of his face into the shadows in the corner. He had no impression of this person, but, maybe, should he have been there when he died?

It's just that Qi Hai Kui felt that the other party was really unlucky.

"So… you have zero points?"

"Shh—" The other party immediately made a shushing gesture and glared at Qi Hai Kui, "I just haven't scored yet!"

Qi Hai Kui: ???

"Are you awake? Have something to drink." Mingmei looked at Mu Chen, who was already leaning against her game pod, glanced at the juice he was holding in his hand, and sighed softly before sitting up.

After receiving Mu Chen's drink, Mingmei glared at Mu Chen resentfully, as if complaining, "Why did you let me face this noisy world?"

Mu Chen smiled when he saw Mingmei's reaction, didn't say much, just turned his head to look at Lu Xiaoyao, who was surrounded by a group of people talking, he pursed his lips, as if telling Mingmei, "Let's go see the excitement"~

Mingmei took a sip of the cold juice to completely clear her dizzy head from the game, she turned her head to look at Lu Xiaoyao, who had already focused their attention on Valdo.

"Why are you looking at me?"

Valdo also wanted to reduce his presence as much as possible, but he was still targeted.

"Major, I remember that you seem to be the same as us, either all insects or all people in the same game. What did you do in the second half?"

Valdo: "…"

Could he say that he was gone as soon as the second half started?

Valdo felt bitter in his heart, Valdo wanted face, and Valdo didn't want to talk to Lu Xiaoyao at all at this moment!