Chapter 14 The Hard Battle

Mingmei and the others were on the lookout for teammates, eliminating small groups of enemies and uniting more forces along the way.

The players acting as Zerg were doing the same, eliminating lone human players and gathering their teammates to strengthen their ranks.

But the progress of the two sides was vastly different.

The Zerg players were “mutually attracted” to each other, while the student-soldiers, when meeting each other, would reject any suggestion of unified command with a resounding, "Screw you! I was born to be wild and free!"

Mingmei and her group had recently parted ways with a starship team of about fifty people and were now on their own ship, reviewing what they had just done.

"What did they mean by that just now? Who are they calling a bully?"

At that moment, Lu Xiaoyao, whose attempt to merge with the team of fifty players had failed, was venting her frustration on the starship. The others also looked displeased.

It wasn't because of Lu Xiaoyao's reaction, but because they were just as angry as she was.

They had just rescued a starship under attack by twenty or so Zerg, only to discover that it contained more than fifty players.

They hadn't even pointed out how pathetic it was that more than fifty people were stuck on a starship and couldn't even get out. Yet, those people acted as if they had ulterior motives?

"I didn't even complain about how useless they were!" On the public channel, Mandison and the others from the neighboring starship couldn't help but complain about the group just now.

"What's wrong with telling such useless people to listen to orders?"

"Yeah, they’re useless but don't want to be told!" Dong Lei echoed their complaints, "There are all kinds of birds in the forest!"

"The thing is, we can't just watch them die."

Some players felt aggrieved by their actions. They had clearly done a good deed, but... they didn't even get a thank you, and were even questioned about their motives for uniting.

It was infuriating!

"If they don't want to, then forget it. Forcing people like that together, I'm afraid they'll stab me in the back at a critical moment."

Li Yuan didn't take kindly to the attitude of the people they had just rescued.

Mingmei and Mu Chen listened and agreed that it was better for those people to leave.

"We unite those who are willing to be united, not everyone."

Mu Chen agreed with Li Yuan. Those people wanted to be protected, but were unwilling to listen to orders and suspected everyone had ulterior motives. It was best to avoid such people.

"Yeah, ignore them. Let's just do our own thing and not give up on potential teammates waiting for us to unite just because of a few weirdos."

Sun Yunzhong cheered everyone up, smoothing over the bad mood of those who were unhappy about saving a group of oddballs.

"We still have more points to earn!"

Seeing that everyone's mood was still not particularly good despite no longer dwelling on the rescue, Sun Yunzhong continued with his points routine.

"That wave just now must have been worth 140+ points, right? Even though there are a lot of us, everyone made some profit from the cooperation, right?"

The mention of points immediately brought life back to everyone's faces.

"Hahaha, I earned 5 points just now!"

"Wow~ Envy! My attack power is low, but I still got 0.8 points!"

Some players were chatting on the public channel. It was rare to see someone with such a good attitude despite only earning a fraction of a point.

"Hey, 0.8 is still points. As long as it's not zero."

"Yeah, you can accumulate points slowly!"

Mingmei couldn't help but marvel at how good everyone's attitude was in this team. They were happy with just a few points or even fractions of a point.

"After all, it's been zero points when I was alone."

Perhaps Mingmei's expression gave away her thoughts, Mu Chen immediately told her what everyone was thinking.

"Yeah," Mingmei nodded, remembering Lu Xiaoyao asking her about her score earlier. She didn't answer. She could imagine how shocking it would be to reveal her nearly 300 points.

In this game, ever since Mingmei revealed her Jinyi (brocade armor), Sun Yunzhong had been ordering her to fight from time to time. However, probably having seen the Jinyi’s tendency to leave no Zerg alive, he had become more restrained when directing Mingmei.

They had agreed to earn points together. Even if Mingmei didn't mean to, he had to carefully consider when to unleash the two powerful weapons, Jinyi and Subo (plain silk), considering the growing size of the team.

Seeing teammates instantly kill Zerg was certainly morale-boosting, but watching teammates kill Zerg the whole time might be too lacking in personal experience.

"I've roughly estimated that we've encountered fewer than two hundred Zerg from the time we entered the game until now."

When calculating, Sun Yunzhong even asked Mingmei if they had encountered any Zerg when they were separated from the team earlier. After adding everything up, he realized that there were still many Zerg that hadn't appeared.

"However, as far as we know, at least 200 students have been eliminated."

Sun Yunzhong's change of subject instantly silenced everyone.

They had encountered 200 Zerg, but the number of deaths was probably less than a hundred.

But those 200 students were definitely gone.

"Currently, we are indeed at a disadvantage in terms of combat power." Sun Yunzhong said, pointing to the coordinates on the star map on the command deck, "Next, we need to go deeper into the map. With more teammates, there are also more Zerg hiding inside. We have more possibilities. Next, we will have a battle, no, countless hard battles to come!"

Sun Yunzhong's voice was heard by everyone on the other starships through the public channel.

"But the rewards are also substantial. More than five thousand points are waiting for us. Have you thought about how much you want to earn?"

Mu Chen couldn't help but laugh at Sun Yunzhong's words. Even Mingmei knew that Sun Yunzhong's words were exaggerated.

Five thousand points? That would only be possible if the other players hadn't killed many Zerg and they had encountered all of them and were able to defeat them.

Although Mingmei didn't want to admit it, there might be a second or third team like theirs, uniting a hundred or so players.

Even if they weren't as effective, there were still teams like the one they had just rescued. Although they might not be very useful, they could still kill a few, right?

As Mingmei thought, her eyes fell on Lu Xiaoyao, the expert in creating atmosphere, who was already excitedly acting as if she had been paid to promote, saying that she wanted to earn a hundred points. Mingmei really wanted to tell Lu Xiaoyao to calm down. It was too much!

As a result, perhaps Lu Xiaoyao's words had an effect, as some people on the public channel started imitating Lu Xiaoyao, shouting how many points they wanted to earn. Some even divided the five thousand points clearly.

Everyone should earn 50 points each.

Mingmei: =。=

This is a game, not a wish-granting pond.