Mingmei and Mu Chen, after retreating from the pseudo-mother they had severely injured, helped other players block the fleeing black beetles.

As the two watched from a short distance as Hu Yue and Mandison moved forward to reap the last of the escaping black beetles, Mingmei suddenly saw Su Bo next to her raise her hand and fire a shot!

Bang!

Before she could react, the shell exploded in front of the escaping black beetle.

It almost injured Hu Yue and Mandison.

"What's going on?" Mandison and Hu Yue were about to make the final harvest of the black beetle when they were startled by the sudden explosion nearby.

If the armor-piercing shell hadn't been blocked in advance, it wouldn't have penetrated the beetle's armor directly due to the beetle's defensive capabilities. If it had exploded on the surface, they would have been affected, being so close to the black beetle.

Mingmei frowned and looked towards the direction the shell came from. She saw a dozen starships suddenly appear before them, surrounded by mechs of all sizes and colors.

Taking a closer look, the gaudy nature of the mechs made it clear that many were private mech data imports into the game.

This formation was even more flamboyant than their team.

"Who are they?"

Hu Yue and the others also noticed the row of unfamiliar starships. The black beetle behind them was desperately trying to escape.

However, it failed. Before it could run far, it was surrounded by a dozen black mechs that had sneaked over, completing the harvest.

The silent and sudden appearance made Hu Yue and Mandison, who were skilled in stealth and concealment, couldn't help but narrow their eyes.

Too fast, and too quiet!

Seeing that the other team had no intention of communicating, the dozen black mechs cooperated tacitly and harvested the black beetle.

This blatant act of stealing their kill made Mingmei and Mu Chen's hearts sink.

When the other party's dozen mechs appeared, Mingmei first brought Hu Yue and the others behind her. She stood there with Mu Chen, sending messages to Sun Yunzhong while preventing the starships and mechs from advancing further.

She didn't know if Sun Yunzhong and the others had finished harvesting everything.

Mu Chen had already activated the weapons on Su Bo and shouted directly in the nearby communication channel, "Who goes there? Speak!"

"You're not worthy to know who I am!"

When a clear, girlish voice suddenly came through the public channel, Mingmei raised her eyebrows, finding it unbelievable that the spokesperson for this team was a girl.

It wasn't because of gender prejudice, but because the girl's tone didn't sound like a smart person =.=

Judging people by their voice was very mystical.

"Oh! In this day and age, those who are unwilling to reveal their names are probably petty thieves, bandits, or robbers, right?"

Hu Yue was about to be driven mad by the other party's kill-stealing behavior and directly turned on her sarcasm.

That was a bug she had worked so hard to chase!

"Who are you calling a petty thief? What do you mean?! You commoners probably wouldn't even know my name if I said it." The girl's tone was full of pride, filling Mingmei's head with question marks.

Commoners?

That word? Now?

What era is this person from?

"Who is it?"

Confused, Mingmei whispered to Mu Chen. Mu Chen was also at a loss. He had heard that some old aristocratic families in the empire still held such ideas.

If he wasn't mistaken, the girl in the public channel should be from an old aristocratic family of the empire.

"The last person who said that had their teeth knocked out." Hu Yue chuckled. This person's annoying tone, compared to the still-unawakened Merui Ta, was a pair of Crouching Dragons and Phoenixes.

"How dare you! You people actually want to hit me?"

…

On the other side, after dealing with the pseudo-mother, everyone was joyous when they heard Sun Yunzhong order them to leave.

"Why so suddenly?"

Lu Xiaoyao hadn't even calculated how many pseudo-mother cubs her points from this time were worth when Sun Yunzhong wanted to leave?

"Hu Yue and the others who chased the black beetles sent back a message that they encountered a starship team of similar size to ours and killed the black beetles when they saw them."

"What? Kill stealing?!"

They described it as seeing them, but they still killed the black beetles. What was this if not kill stealing?

Everyone was immediately enraged upon hearing this. Before Sun Yunzhong could speak, they immediately organized their mech formation and urged, "Where are they? Let's go kill them!"

When the group arrived, they saw the opposing starships and mechs. If they hadn't looked carefully, they wouldn't have noticed that the starship number was two more than theirs!

Although everyone's mech quality was basically A-grade, there were many on the other side that were obviously private mechs, custom-made in reality, which were better than the general-purpose models produced by the system.

Even so, everyone couldn't be underestimated. Lu Xiaoyao flew directly to the front, consciously straightening her position.

"Who goes there, state your name!"

Jian Yunhe was already a bit jealous of the two S-class mechs on the opposite side, but relying on her numerical advantage, she hadn't been afraid at all. However, when she saw a bunch of starships flying over, she restrained her arrogance.

As a result, she restrained herself, and another person came with an even more aggressive aura!

Listening to this voice, Jian Yunhe felt like she had heard it somewhere before.

"What? You have the guts to steal kills, but you don't dare to say your name?" Seeing that the other party didn't speak, Lu Xiaoyao's momentum became even more forceful.

As a result, the other party asked uncertainly in the public channel, "Are you Lu Xiaoyao?"

"Eh?"

Lu Xiaoyao was stunned, not expecting the other party to recognize her.

"Are you my fan?" She asked subconsciously, and the other party unhesitatingly replied, "Pah, who's your fan?"

Lu Xiaoyao: ?

Everyone present: =.=?

Mingmei: …

Listening to this, if they weren't a fan, then they were probably a hater. Otherwise, it was rare to be able to recognize Lu Xiaoyao's voice.

"Wait—" Just as Mingmei thought it was one of Lu Xiaoyao's haters, Lu Xiaoyao seemed to recognize who the other party was.

"Ah! I remember now, you're that toad from the Jian family!"

"Pah! You're the toad! Your whole family except for your brother are toads!"

Suddenly, the person on the other side exploded. With this shout, everyone present instantly grasped the key point.

What did "except for your brother" mean?

And Lu Xiaoyao's "toad" also seemed to be implying something?

At that moment, including Hu Mingli, who was watching the game live, perked up and pulled up the female student's information who was arguing with Lu Xiaoyao.

"I went! This old man is poisonous, right? I ask him for money every day, and he only gives it to me after I smash the office. I thought the old man hated me, but he trusts me so much that he even sent his granddaughter to me?"

Hu Mingli rubbed his chin, watching the two girls quarrel in the game, and seemed to have discovered something amazing…