Chapter 29 Halftime

“Huh? The game has a first and second half?”

After ending the video call with Julian, Lu Xiaoyao was thinking that since she had left the game so early and couldn't get up and move around, she was just about to see if the game pod had any other entertainment options. Then, suddenly, a pop-up appeared, asking her to enter the game and wait for the second half to begin.

“What kind of game rules are these?”

“This game is divided into two halves. Last round you're a bug, next round you're a human. Each side, human and bug, gets to play once.”

Just as Lu Xiaoyao was totally confused, she heard the voice of the person she had been gossiping about outside her game pod.

“Wow!”

Lu Xiaoyao immediately realized that the game pod wasn't soundproof.

If it wasn't soundproof, wouldn't that mean that what she had just said had probably been transmitted out because of the lack of soundproofing?!

Help!

Realizing this fact, Lu Xiaoyao's face was filled with embarrassment, wishing she could dig through the game pod with her toes and run out!

But, what if the other party hadn't heard?

“Don't yell, it's just like you thought,”

Sure enough, Waldo's words shattered her unrealistic fantasies.

“I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!”

Lu Xiaoyao apologized quickly. Waldo's tone on the other end also sounded a bit melancholic: "You're right, actually."

Lu Xiaoyao: "......Um."

"I underestimated them." Waldo sighed softly, then, looking at the game pop-up inviting him, he said, "This pre-invitation for the second half of the game means the first half is about to end."

"Ah? So fast?"

Lu Xiaoyao was stunned.

"Yeah, the flow of time in the game is different from the outside, and—" Waldo paused mid-sentence, then said, "You've seen Doron's strength. How many players do you think there are who can fight him?"

Lu Xiaoyao: "......"

She wanted to retort that there were many capable people she knew, but then she thought about the roles they had in the game. It seemed... it seemed they were at a disadvantage.

……

While Lu Xiaoyao and the others outside the game had already received the pre-invitation for the second half and were about to enter the game to prepare, Mingmei and the others in the game finally gave up their decision to lie low.

After leaving the mining star, they were stunned by the various bug corpses and starship wreckage floating in space.

Just like they had guessed before, they were likely left behind to be dealt with separately.

In the end, Mingmei followed the traces of the battle in space and found the remaining five players playing as bugs.

At this moment, besides them, there were only five players left on the field.

And these five were obviously teamed up, otherwise they wouldn't have been surrounded and targeted together.

When they saw Mingmei and the others appear, they were initially surprised, but then they thought about the situation at hand, looked at the surrounding battleships and mechs, and still shouted at Mingmei and the others, "Get out of here!"

Mingmei had already learned from Mu Chen and Li Yuan's calculations that the starships and mechs surrounding these five players were probably all the human players.

Looking at the hundreds of opponents, and less than ten of them bugs, including their side.

The numbers were quite different.

“Where to go?”

She smiled wryly. If she left, these five would probably not last long. What would the four of them play then?

Originally, she wanted to delay the other side for as long as possible, but things had turned into this, and it was unrealistic for them to just run.

Might as well go all out.

“Oh, everyone's here.”

Doron and Rui'an, who had originally wanted to further eliminate these five bugs, naturally stopped their actions when they saw Mingmei and the others rushing over.

Even realizing that they were also going to stay, Doron even had everyone make way for them.

The gesture of inviting them into a trap made Mingmei clear-headed. She didn't continue forward, but stopped outside the encirclement.

“Is this going to be a final showdown?”

Rui'an couldn't help but chuckle as she looked at the situation in front of her.

The five players who had survived earlier were all playing combat-type bugs. Rui'an and Doron saw their agility and decided to let the others practice.

So they had indeed spent some time here.

They just didn't expect that the four bugs who had run away earlier couldn't help but appear here first.

Doron rearranged the formation without a trace. Mingmei quickly realized that although she hadn't entered the encirclement just now, their "circle" could move. She was surrounded again!

"Leave the Black Armor Bug General." Doron issued an order in their own channel, "The others, no need to keep them."

After speaking, Mingmei saw two streaks of light, one red and one black, flash before her eyes. She immediately assumed a fighting stance, bearing the sudden attacks coming from the left and right.

[Meimei, don't open your armored wings.]

Mu Chen noticed behind Mingmei that the black mech was also equipped with an armor-piercing round!

At the level of a Black Armor Bug General, the only part of the body that could be damaged by an armor-piercing round was the area exposed when the armored wings were raised.

[Okay.]

Seeing that the Black Armor Bug, which was just about to raise its wings to attack, suddenly retracted its wings and took on a completely defensive posture, Doron accelerated and, ahead of Rui'an, fired at Mingmei first. Then, Mingmei was stunned to discover that the red figure had directly passed her by!

Not good!

Mingmei immediately rotated her defensive, chubby body, only to see Hu Yue directly block Rui'an's attack on Li Yuan with her two-meter-tall Horsefly body!

“Yu Yue!!”

Li Yuan also didn't expect Rui'an to suddenly attack him. But Mu Chen directly controlled his body, whipping the Rui'an's Morning Cloud mech away!

The Morning Cloud mech was more than forty meters tall, and the light blade in the mech's hand was more than three meters wide. With this slash, the Horsefly's body was instantly cut in half, and she was instantly eliminated.

The light blade in the Morning Cloud mech's hand didn't stop, and stabbed straight into Li Yuan's Thousand-Eyed Bug, cutting him in half from the middle.

The siblings' feint was very effective, and the move never gets old. While this was happening to Hu Yue and the others, Doron, who had just left scratches on Mingmei's back with his weapon, directly caught Rui'an, who had been whipped away by them. The siblings turned around and flew towards the other five bugs.

“Be careful!”

Mingmei couldn't make it in time. She had never seen anyone piloting a mech to fight the Zerg so quickly and neatly.

In just a moment, Mingmei personally witnessed the five bugs disappear on the spot.

When the one black and one red mech finished everything, they turned around, and Mingmei suddenly felt a chill in her heart.

Without Mingmei knowing, Mu Chen had climbed onto her huge bug body. A comforting mental force instantly calmed Mingmei's terrified emotions.

[Meimei, don't be afraid, I will be with you until the final battle.]