Lilian was like a joke.

Saying she deeply loved her daughter, but in her heart, she loved herself even more.

She wouldn't admit her failure in Mona's upbringing, pushing all the blame onto Mona. She stayed by Mona's side in a self-torturing way, watching her do evil, repeatedly saying in a helpless tone, "It's all her problem. I've already done this, but she still won't turn back."

The self-indulgent sentimentality was both terrifying and sickening. Over the years, Mona felt nothing but suffocation, shock, and incomprehension.

Mona even wanted to ask her, why should she turn back? Why should she change for the better?

Turn back, to walk another extreme path with that crazy woman?

Over the years, Mona had grown tired of it all.

The death of her biological father, and the things he did before his death, didn't move her, but she did glean inspiration from them.

Let it end like this.

Free herself.

…

In the end, Mona's sudden outburst caught everyone off guard.

The virus with data-destroying capabilities that Zhen Hu had discarded reappeared in Mona's hands. This time, she pushed Zhen Hu away and lunged toward the stunned Lilian.

"Mom…"

The scene in Lilian's eyes suddenly changed.

A chibi little girl with pigtails, holding a doll, stumbled towards her.

The child's innocent smile, with sweet and soft dimples at the corners of her mouth, instinctively opened her arms, and Lilian hugged her.

"Mom, how about we go find my father?"

Then, a cold voice instantly woke Lilian up. The cute girl in her arms had disappeared, replaced by a beautiful girl with a strange smile.

They hugged each other tightly, and a tearing pain spread from their chests throughout their bodies.

"You…" Lilian opened her mouth to say something, but when she saw a tear fall from Mona's eyes, her mind went blank again.

It had been a long time since she had seen Mona cry.

The last time Mona cried was the last time.

She felt her mental body begin to collapse, and cracks began to appear in the sky above. The world seemed to be disintegrating with Mona's disappearance, and Lilian laughed.

In the end, she died with Mona.

"It's a chaotic place, not just a game world, but the deepest part of the entire survival game, a world that hasn't fully formed yet."

Before disappearing, Mona told everyone the location of the Zerg, accurately stating their final destination amidst Lilian's surprise and shock.

"There's a very terrifying NPC hidden there. Maybe it's too terrifying? That world hasn't been opened to the public since it formed. You, ask the game designers, and you'll know."

At this moment, in a distant galaxy, in a high-end hospital ward, the vital signs monitor on a hospital bed flatlined once more…

Mingmei logged out of the collapsing game world and sat up directly from the game pod. She took a deep breath of the cold air and checked her surroundings many times before confirming that she was out of the game world.

For the first time, a collapsing game world was presented before her eyes, with the sky falling and the ground cracking, as if she were standing in an apocalyptic scene.

"Ahhhhh—" Lu Xiaoyao screamed as she crawled out of the game pod. Mingmei sat in her pod and watched Lu Xiaoyao in the pod next to her open her eyes and jump out like her butt was on fire!

Fortunately, Lu Gui, who had been guarding outside the game pods, grabbed his sister.

"What are you doing? So rash?"

Lu Gui was startled by Lu Xiaoyao's sudden movement. Why was this girl always so reckless?

"I almost, almost got crushed to death by a collapsing building!" Lu Xiaoyao patted her small chest with lingering fear. She felt that the scene just now was too real.

They ran out of the room, and everything was collapsing. Although the system reminded them that the game would be exited and there was a one-minute countdown, it was impossible for them to stand there and wait for death in this situation.

So, in the last minute, Lu Xiaoyao once again experienced the thrill of survival in the apocalypse.

At the moment when the building above her head collapsed, and the reinforced concrete touched her scalp, she came out, frantically running out in shock.

"Thank goodness."

Mingmei looked at Lu Gui, who was almost driven to the edge of rage by Lu Xiaoyao's appearance, and secretly laughed.

"This game was considered thrilling but safe."

Mu Chen also sat up from the game pod at this time, looking around. He found that there seemed to be very few students entering the game today.

"Is everyone not entering the game today?" Mingmei noticed Mu Chen's expression and looked around.

It seemed that only the few of them who were previously in the game were present.

At this time, Zhen Hu also came out of the game pod not far away, with an ugly face, as if he hadn't come out of the plot yet.

"Because the Chongzu suddenly attacked the border guarded by the Third Army, and also destroyed a star system with a relatively developed technological civilization there, destroying half of the star field's economy. Many soldiers stationed there were sacrificed, including three outstanding graduates from our school. It is said that the original arrangement was to return for the National Day next year to participate in the awarding of the rank of colonel."

As soon as they came out of the game, they received such bad news, and the hearts that Mingmei and Mu Chen had been excited about just now couldn't help but cool down.

"Also… Li Yuan's second brother, the new generation of S-class mecha builders, also sacrificed in this battle. Li Yuan was originally going home to attend the funeral, but the distance between Li Yuan's home planet and the Imperial Star was too far, and his father was afraid that something would happen to him on the way, so he forbade him from going home. He's probably sulking in his dormitory now."

"Why did the Chongzu suddenly attack this time?"

Mingmei felt a little unbelievable that the Chongzu would quietly attack a legion.

Although the strength comparison between humans and the Chongzu was such that humans always suffered more losses than the Chongzu, there would also be strong humans who could severely damage the Chongzu.

Were they relying on their ability to reproduce to provoke them?

"The Chongzu are a bunch of lunatics. I didn't know they had so many secret actions when I wasn't in school!"

Speaking of the Chongzu, everyone unanimously didn't have a good tone, but Lu Xiaoyao's "self-exposure" was completely unnecessary.

"Not being in school doesn't mean you don't read the news. If you didn't know these things before, don't you think you should reflect on it?"

Lu Gui had forgotten to ask them about the game this time because he was interrupted.

Listening to them say that they had already cleared the game, Lu Gui felt a little regretful that he hadn't participated. However, when he asked how they had cleared the game, everyone's expressions were different.

Looking at everyone's subtle expressions, Lu Gui couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that you don't even know how you cleared the game?"

"You're right."

Mingmei and the others really didn't know how they cleared the game.

If it weren't for Lianna going crazy and Mona being too lazy to deal with the other party, simply taking this opportunity to kill herself, they would probably still be grinding.

Mingmei and Mu Chen were so vague about knowing the main storyline and what happened to the characters that Lu Xiaoyao couldn't explain it even more.

What Lu Gui heard from Lu Xiaoyao was that Lu Xiaoyao was being played by the Boss in the game.

Although Lu Xiaoyao didn't admit it and stated that she tried her best to deal with the Boss, her description wasn't convincing.

Then, Lu Gui learned about the situation from Zhen Hu and said after listening for a long time, "You were favored by the Boss, exclusively loved?"

Zhen Hu: ??