Chapter 23 Just a Dream

"Leave it to me." Mingmei's bright eyes narrowed as she glared unkindly at the sickle fly that had attacked Lu Xiaoyao.

She could tell how dangerous this guy was when Hu Yue was playing.

And this guy was clearly stronger than Hu Yue.

Every time they fought, he was slippery as an eel.

Duo Lun, who was being targeted by Mingmei, was also having a headache.

They had expanded the Zerg army, but they hadn't expected to encounter this black mecha when they met again.

"I knew something was wrong when the white mecha appeared without this black one!"

Duo Lun and Rui An complained as they dodged the attacks of the mecha that was several times their size. However, in a moment of distraction, Duo Lun was punched away by Mingmei, who suddenly appeared in front of him.

After punching him away, Mingmei's mecha instantly accelerated, wanting to eliminate the sickle fly.

"Careful!"

Sun Yunzhong shouted to her in the communication channel. Mingmei looked up and saw the tentacles that the Xingyan insect usually used all extended, flying towards the sickle fly and her.

However, Mingmei didn't dodge. She calmly watched as the tentacles flying towards her were blasted apart or cut off by the beams and ammunition fired from her side.

Mu Chen had been guarding Mingmei's back, which was why she was able to be so reckless.

"Hiss—"

Seeing this, Lu Xiaoyao gasped. She remembered her own severed tentacles from before. The pain… Thinking about it, Lu Xiaoyao still felt a faint pain in her fingers!

"True love, I tell you!" Lu Xiaoyao felt that it was very thoughtful of the other party to risk so much pain to save the sickle fly.

Although they didn't succeed!

Rui, who was about to fail, almost couldn't help but spray a large amount of bodily fluids towards Lu Xiaoyao again, scaring Lu Xiaoyao into strengthening her energy shield again.

Without the Xingyan insect, the other Zerg also wanted to get closer, but in the end, whether because their team had a Zerg giving orders, they didn't seem to want to rescue the sickle fly again.

Clearly, they wanted the sickle fly to rely on himself.

Mingmei wasn't relieved about this. The player playing the sickle fly was clearly not weak. It was hard to say whether he had been abandoned or whether they thought he had the ability to escape from her grasp.

Even if the player playing the Xingyan insect wanted to rescue him but was interrupted, Mingmei didn't think the sickle fly was being "abandoned" because he couldn't be "saved."

The Xingyan insect's attack just now seemed to be to buy time.

Otherwise, the sickle fly wouldn't have stabilized himself and be facing her head-on, with no intention of leaving.

Mingmei stared at the sickle fly floating not far away with cold eyes, mentally raising the level of danger he posed by several times.

Especially since he was unwilling to leave even after being at a disadvantage in the fight just now, he clearly had something else in mind.

"Don't engage in prolonged combat, Student Ming."

Sun Yunzhong's words rang in Mingmei's ears again. Mingmei looked around. Her mecha had already flown out of Lu Xiaoyao's defense range. Otherwise, the Xingyan insect wouldn't have been able to extend its tentacles here just now.

But in this state, was she supposed to retreat while the other party didn't?

Where could she retreat to?

Long ago, when the Xingyan insect was constantly spraying bodily fluids at them, the three hundred-plus Zerg, except for the few black armored Zerg guarding the Xingyan insect, had already dispersed and formed a "net."

All directions were filled with these Zerg. The only place to retreat was Lu Xiaoyao's defense.

Mingmei pursed her lips, staring at the sickle fly opposite her.

At this time, the entire Zerg army was relying on the Xingyan insect to exhaust them, followed by the sickle fly's sneak attacks, and the other Zerg were gathering strength to prepare for the final harvest. What a plan!

If she left this time, and the other party went back to rest, and then attacked again next time, if Mingmei didn't notice in time, who knew who would be unlucky then.

Since this guy didn't want to leave, Mingmei would grant his wish.

Unfortunately, Sun Yunzhong and the others were worried that Mingmei flying out of the defense circle would lead to her being surrounded by more Zerg, and they wouldn't be able to support her.

Even if Mu Chen was always guarding her nearby.

Sun Yunzhong's words of persuasion interspersed intermittently as he constantly commanded others, making Mingmei feel a little irritable just being in the standoff with the Zerg.

So, when she heard Sun Yunzhong's tone become more severe this time, she finally spoke.

"Sun Yunzhong."

Mingmei took a deep breath from the bottom of her lungs, turned her gaze to the Zerg army attacking under the Xingyan insect's offensive, and glanced at the sickle fly in front of her.

"What's wrong?"

"This time, do you want everyone to survive and break through the Zerg army together, or to get as many points as possible for everyone?"

When Mingmei asked this, Sun Yunzhong was stunned for a moment. He looked at the dark figure floating in the starry sky through the starship, his expression somewhat complicated.

"Do you have a way to lead everyone out?"

When Sun Yunzhong finished speaking, the corners of Mingmei's mouth curved slightly.

Lead everyone out, without emphasizing bringing everyone to get points this time. Sun Yunzhong's words had already made his choice.

"If you can keep persuading me like you did before, I can lead everyone out."

Originally, Mingmei really intended to lie flat and be a salted fish, but the current situation didn't allow it.

Even if they won in the end, it would probably be a pyrrhic victory. She didn't want to watch her teammates, whom she had cooperated with for so long, die.

Even if it was a game, because it was linked to reality, the extreme sense of realism still made her feel fear.

Sun Yunzhong used the facts to prove their goal this time to Mingmei. Mingmei looked at the gathered team behind her, and then at the sickle fly who didn't dare to move because he was being stared at, and finally spoke.

"Let's just treat it as a dream~"

When Duo Lun heard Mingmei speak in the nearby channel, his heart suddenly tightened. Then, he felt an indescribable tingling sensation spread throughout his body, and a terrifying aura suddenly filled the surrounding area!

"This…"

Duo Lun didn't even finish his sentence before everything went black. When he regained consciousness, he had already lost the game.

"What the heck!!"

Duo Lun stared at his game interface, found the scene before his death, and saw his sickle fly standing there like a fool, not moving at all, and finally being slapped to death by the rushing mecha.

His death wasn't exactly graceful, but it definitely showed how wary the other party was of him.

Slapped to death with both hands, completely dead.

He just couldn't figure out what had happened to him just now, why he had stood there like an idiot.

As Duo Lun sighed, he opened the game pod and saw that the nearby game pods were also open.

His twin sister's expression was also terribly ugly.

"You're out too?"

Duo Lun understood that his little body might have been slapped to death, but his sister was playing the Xingyan insect!

"How would I know?"

Rui An was also furious, especially since several veterans came out of the game pods and shouted that Rui An had suddenly self-destructed, which had screwed them all over!

"You self-destructed?"

Duo Lun looked at Rui An as if he had seen a ghost. They had died one after the other, right? How did Rui An self-destruct?

"Are you crazy? Ouch!"

He had just exclaimed whether Rui An was crazy when he was hit on the head!

"I'm not crazy, I just… at that time, I felt like, like I was being controlled…" Rui An couldn't describe the feeling.

That sense of oppression from the bloodline forced her to have no ability to resist.

"Controlled?"

Hearing Rui An's description, several people around them also spoke up one after another.

"It seems… there was that feeling, instantly there was no intention to resist, clearly I didn't want to let those people go, but the team couldn't help but gather, moving closer to Rui An's side…"

They secretly looked at Rui An again, and then everyone knew, Rui An suddenly exploded.

Almost half of the Zerg were blown to death.

…

"What the heck!"

Everyone was still immersed in the shock of how Mingmei had manipulated those Zerg to voluntarily make way, but before they could get far, they were directly blown away by the shockwave of the Xingyan insect's sudden explosion behind them. After they hurriedly stabilized themselves, they realized that the large Zerg army from before had been scattered by the Xingyan insect's self-destruction.

"Are they crazy?"

Some players were startled by the Zerg corpses scattered all over the place. Sun Yunzhong repeatedly emphasized not to approach, to prevent these "crazy" Zerg from self-destructing again.

Zerg self-destruction was no joke.

The Xingyan insect's self-destruction was a clear example.

Even the black armored Zerg guarding it were blown to pieces, showing its power.

At this moment, Mingmei silently hid behind everyone, looking at the prompts from Gui Gui, about the hundreds of points she had gained again, and Mingmei was suffocating.

She had really left everyone in the dust this time!

[Why so many points?]

[Host, the way you put it~] Gui Gui was about to laugh, [You killed so many Zerg, it would be strange if you didn't get a lot of points.]

[But, I only killed the Xingyan insect, what does the fact that they were affected by the Xingyan insect's explosion have to do with me, Mingmei?]

Gui Gui: [I advise you to accept it calmly, otherwise you'll be beaten for being so pretentious.]

Mingmei: [I shouldn't have gone out of my way to kill the Xingyan insect!]

She had just wanted to solve everyone's burden, but she hadn't expected the solution to be so broad.

"With the remaining defeated soldiers, shouldn't we go kill some?"

Some players looked hesitant, seeing the sudden rout on the opposite side, their hearts were eager to move.

"Forget it, what if they really go crazy and self-destruct when they see us? That would be too awkward?" Some cautious players also felt that Sun Yunzhong was right. It would be a waste if they were self-destructed by the seemingly harmless Zerg in front of them!

"Speaking of which, why did these Zerg suddenly go crazy just now?"

Finally, someone once again shifted the topic to Mingmei.

Oh, even though Mingmei was still piloting the mecha, she felt that her skin didn't seem to be so thick, and she still couldn't help but blush.

"Going crazy this…" Mingmei thought about the special nature of her mecha, but still didn't say it directly, only saying, "My mecha is mainly equipped with melee and mental attack weapons, but mental attacks aren't something that can be used at any time. Some external conditions are still needed to achieve them."

Mingmei rambled on about the excuse she had thought up for a long time. She didn't expect it to become so widely known.

"Wow, mental attack weapons? Wow~ How cool~"

Lu Xiaoyao, as the support queen, her expression and tone interrupted everyone who had wanted to delve deeper into what Mingmei had said just now.

Following Lu Xiaoyao's words, everyone's minds were also—

"Wow~ How cool~"

"How cool~"

"Cool~"

"~"

"It's not… that cool." Mingmei was caught off guard by Lu Xiaoyao's overly supportive appearance, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"It's very cool, mental attack weapons! These are rarely installed on mechas separately."

"Eh?"

Lu Xiaoyao's words completely exceeded Mingmei's knowledge range.

Crap, she didn't seem to have investigated the matter of mental attack weapons.

"It's not… that separate…" Mingmei felt a little guilty and quickly asked Gui Gui in the mecha [Didn't you say there are mental attack weapons?]

Mingmei hadn't been talking nonsense when she was thinking of reasons before. She had done some research, but it was clear that the research didn't seem to be that deep.

[Yes, but they are generally installed on large combat starships to prevent soldiers from being mentally affected by the Zerg queen in the Zerg army. Sometimes they can also be used as interference to interfere with the Zerg queen's control over the Zerg.]

Mingmei: …

Was it because she hadn't asked so deeply at the time?

"That's great, if we encounter so many Zerg again in the future, Mingmei goes!"

"No, no!"

Mingmei immediately declined when she heard this. It was also very exhausting for her to control the Zerg queen's crystal core once!

She only dared to try it because her mental strength had improved recently. If she did it several times in a row, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to control it, and who knows what would happen then!

"What are you thinking?" Hu Yue glared at Lu Xiaoyao and said, "Such a powerful weapon must not be something that can be activated casually, otherwise Mingmei wouldn't have used it until now, right?"

"Yeah."

Mingmei still knew how to take advantage of the situation.

"Next, we still need everyone to work together. With such a big scourge gone, things will be much easier for us later!" Seeing that Mingmei didn't seem to want to talk about what happened just now, Sun Yunzhong took over the topic and painted a picture (hua) of the future (da) for everyone.

"As long as everyone works together, we will get more and more points! After surviving a great disaster, there will be good fortune. Let's work together for points!"

"For points! Let's work together!"

"For 50 points!"

"50 points!"

Looking at her points that had already exceeded 1000, Mingmei silently lowered her presence.

Even so, Mingmei still received Hu Mingli's appreciation.

"This girl Mei Qiu is really amazing~" Hu Mingli called out to Mingmei in the game, her gaze roaming back and forth between the black and white mechas, as if she had made some major decision, and even laughed out loud uncontrollably in the end.

The surrounding subordinates glanced at her silently and quickly lowered their heads to pretend to be dead.

His subordinates were already so bad that they couldn't hold their heads up after being scolded. If they ran into the line of fire again, they could forget about living.