Chapter 1 So, Knowing That You Can't Achieve Anything by Hiding, Why Are You Making Us Hide Now?

At that moment, on a mineral planet in the game map, its surface mostly covered in black ore, Mingmei quietly buried half of her body in a huge open-pit mine. Concealed by her body, two Thousand-Eyed Worms and a Scythe Fly were completely protected.

Li Yuan, who had previously been refuted by Mingmei for seeing no way out by hiding, now expressed his confusion about Mingmei leading them to hide together.

"If we don't hide, won't the game end directly, benefiting them for nothing?"

Mingmei retracted her carapace wings, blending her insect race with the surrounding environment, and then said, "Everyone is waiting for an opportunity, waiting for their 'teammates' to wear down the opponents. But who is actually going to do the wearing down?"

Mingmei paused and then added, "Anyway, everyone is waiting for each other to make a move, and I'm waiting too. The environment here is so good! The mine's ore radiation causes signal interference, so they can't even detect us. In short, these veterans want to give us a hard time, and we can't just give up easily, right?"

Hearing Mingmei make such a non-salty-fish statement for the first time, Mu Chen glanced at Mingmei a few more times. Although you couldn't see Mingmei's expression on the Black Beetle's face, his intuition told him that Mingmei wasn't kidding.

Before he could ask privately, he heard Hu Yue ask, "Really?"

Mingmei: "Yeah, just kidding. I'm just tired of flying."

Mu Chen: "..." Sure enough.

Hu Yue: "..."

How am I supposed to respond to that?

"Right, take a rest, you've been pretty tired today."

Sensing his girlfriend's speechlessness, Li Yuan helped her out.

"Yeah, yeah, pretty tired." Hearing Li Yuan's addition, Hu Yue followed suit.

Mingmei was surprised to hear their words.

Although what she had said earlier was just her unintentional, heartfelt truth, hearing everyone say that, Mingmei felt even more embarrassed.

"How about, after I've rested, I'll take you out to fight again?"

To live up to everyone's comfort, Mingmei suggested softly.

"No, no, no, no need. It's good now. We can also observe the situation of others. If we can find a bargain, or meet a stray and turn them into a teammate, that's not bad either."

Hu Yue quickly stopped Mingmei when she heard that Mingmei still wanted to fight.

Now was not the time for them to act rashly, otherwise they wouldn't have agreed to hide for a while so readily.

This place could be considered to have the right timing and terrain; all it was lacking was a harmony between the insects.

Just like Mingmei and the others thought, the commotion of Mingmei and the others fighting and being chased all over the place had indeed been noticed by quite a few players.

Unfortunately, they themselves really wanted to meet up with Mingmei and the others, but when they discovered the long string of pursuers chasing Mingmei, these players' bodies were still very honest in choosing to turn around and run.

Players: Brothers, farewell!

Anyway, they couldn't afford to mess with them, so it was better to hide and avoid the limelight.

And so, this chase between humans and insects eventually turned into a game of hide-and-seek!

Whether it was because they had found a good place or not, no one came to Mingmei's location for a while, but other players weren't so lucky. They were too miserable!

Even though they weren't the main target, they were discovered during the carpet search, and after being discovered, a fierce battle was unavoidable. However, some students were indeed not strong enough and were eliminated before they could even put up a good fight.

"This place, I think it's very likely. The terrain is suitable for hiding, especially for Black Beetles."

Duo Lun looked at the circled dark mineral planet on the electronic star map shared by Rui An, a smile of agreement on his face.

Coincidentally, he thought so too.

"I know."

While replying to Rui An, Duo Lun ordered the people around him to continue to clear out the other insect race players in the vicinity.

"You really take it seriously."

Hearing Duo Lun's instructions to his subordinates, Rui An was first stunned, but in an instant, she also let out a soft laugh.

With the tacit understanding of twins, she didn't need to ask to understand Duo Lun's meaning.

"Yeah, I don't want other insects to disturb us during the final battle."

Duo Lun knew the area where Mingmei and the others were located, but he didn't approach them. Instead, he chose to clear out the other insect race players in the entire game map with the other players.

"If we encounter someone even more powerful in the middle..." Duo Lun's smile was a bit sinister, not at all in line with his youthful and energetic face, "If we encounter someone even more powerful, then I'll have to trouble you, sister, to let me handle it. I don't think you'll fail a second time on that mineral star, right?"

"What are you dreaming about? You want to take all the good stuff?"

...

Mingmei, who was completely unaware of her future fate, was still standing in the mine, hands clasped, looking up at the sky, contemplating insect life.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, and there was no sign of any starships, mechs, or insect race companions flying over the horizon.

"Is this some kind of remote corner?" Mingmei felt that the situation didn't quite match her expectations. "At least, they should pretend to fly around a couple of times, right?"

"You said it yourself, 'pretend to fly around a couple of times'..." Mu Chen and Li Yuan were hiding underground in the mine, but their mental power spread throughout the entire planet.

Just like the images they shared with Mingmei, no one or insect had come over.

If Mingmei found it strange, of course they would pay more attention to it.

"Originally, I thought that even if this planet was exposed, and starships or mechs came chasing after us, we could quietly eliminate them thanks to the signal interference from this mineral star. But it turns out, they didn't suspect anything at all?"

Mingmei felt that the other party wasn't that stupid. They had been chasing her with such a tight net before. So what was happening now?

Had they gone blind?

"Is there a possibility..." Hu Yue was the most knowledgeable about their own legion among the four of them. "We've already been discovered, but we don't know it ourselves. And they just want to leave us for last?"

The more Hu Yue thought about it, the more she felt that this wasn't impossible.

"The adjutants and secretaries around my brother like to save their favorite snacks for last when they eat. If they think we're really strong and want to save us for last, it's not impossible."

"So, why are you staring at your brother's adjutants and secretaries?"

Mingmei found the blind spot.

Hu Yue: "..."

"It's just that we used to eat together, and I saw them, so I noticed."

Hu Yue awkwardly laughed it off. She couldn't possibly say that she thought those siblings were good-looking, and there were even rumors in the legion about them and her brother, so she paid special attention to them, right?

"If that's the case, wouldn't that mean that it's already a crazy bloodbath outside?" Suddenly, Mu Chen said, "If that's the case, won't we be isolated and helpless again at the end?"

Everyone: ??!!

That's right!

"I'm afraid all the surviving starships and mechs will come over by then." Li Yuan stabbed them in the heart. "I have a bad feeling..."