Chapter 1 "Go."

Lu Xiaoyao didn't know how she felt when she saw Mingmei piloting the Jinyi mecha to rescue her from the besieged insect swarm.

"Meimei!"

Lu Xiaoyao shouted excitedly, but Mingmei didn't respond again. Jinyi pulled her Fen Dai and retreated frantically. It was during this gap that Lu Xiaoyao vaguely remembered that the Jinyi mecha seemed to be a single-seater?

"Where's...the Big Boss?"

When Lu Xiaoyao asked this, she already had a bad feeling in her heart, especially when she saw Mingmei not answering, but when Jinyi killed the insects blocking their way, her movements paused for a moment. Lu Xiaoyao even wanted to slap herself!

"That..."

Lu Xiaoyao opened her mouth, wanting to remedy the situation, but in the end, she closed it again.

She seemed to know something bad, but it must be very uncomfortable for the person involved, right?

"What do you want to say?"

Hearing Mingmei's flat voice, Lu Xiaoyao's worries deepened.

"Nothing..."

Lu Xiaoyao swallowed the words that came to her lips.

From that day on, Mu Chen seemed to have disappeared from Mingmei's world.

This war ended with their great defeat of the insect race, and the insect race retreated to the depths of their territory.

The imperial royal family also ushered in a major reshuffle after this battle.

His Majesty Seros had already died fifty years ago, and the current Seros was actually an imperial bug impersonating him.

This news was announced by the royal family after a battle centered on the palace broke out in Central Star during the border war with the insect race.

Almost everyone living on Central Star witnessed the sudden appearance of a giant insect.

After the matter ended, the Empire held a press conference, attended by the Crown Prince and the Princess, who had married and left the royal family. The truth about the Crown Prince's frailty and the Princess's collaboration from within were narrated in detail.

Among them, besides the incredible fact that Seros had died long ago and was replaced by the insect race, what attracted the most gossip was the cross-species romance between the previous Emperor and the Imperial Bug Queen in the game.

Although the story ended with the Empire's betrayal of the Imperial Bug Queen, they all wanted to know what the truth was.

Especially the sequel, which was not explained in the game.

After all, how did the grievances and entanglements of the previous generation develop to this point? His Majesty Seros was ambushed and replaced by the Imperial Bug. Could this prove that the royal family had always been in contact with the insect race?

The Crown Prince and the Princess did not mention this matter in their statement, or rather, they were not clear about it.

After all, one of them left the royal family after marriage, and the other was secretly ambushed and imprisoned by his "father," so there wasn't much they could know.

Even after the press conference, the first thing the Crown Prince did after ascending the throne was to proactively announce the establishment of a constitutional monarchy, relinquishing the military power that had always been in the hands of the royal family and stepping back to become a mascot.

Because of this, the upper echelons of the Empire were in turmoil again. The Prime Minister, who had not had much real power for many years, finally stood at the forefront and began to cooperate with the new Emperor to carry out sweeping reforms...

"The problem of excessive spiritual power without matching strong physique has always plagued the royal family."

When everything finally ended, Mei Shi and her family finally gathered together to eat, drink tea, and discuss the entanglement between the royal family and the insect race as Xier had revealed over tea and snacks after dinner.

"Most of the people in the royal family have spiritual power above S-level, but few have a physique that exceeds A-level. Once spiritual power is overused, the first thing to collapse is one's own body.

This is actually unacceptable for those in power. Therefore, the royal family has been studying how to improve their physique, but for some reason, even if they don't care about social status and only look at the physique level of the queens they marry, nothing has changed.

Some ancestors also considered genetic modification, but after studying it for a long time, all they got was weakened spiritual power, not physique. Even with acquired exercise, they could only reach A+ at most."

Xier thought about his younger brother's physique, which had been controlled by that imposter for so many years. Now, he was truly a body that would fall over with a gust of wind.

"Similar to the predicament faced by the Imperial Bugs..." Mei Shi said, stroking her chin.

Yan Hui added, "No, the Imperial Bug's physical body is actually very strong. For the Imperial Bug Queen's super SSS-level spiritual power, that body can actually last for hundreds of years.

However, because the conditions for the appearance of the Imperial Bug Queen are too harsh, there are Imperial Bugs, but Imperial Bug Queens are hard to come by. If an Imperial Bug Queen is lost, there may not be another one among the subsequent Imperial Bugs.

Therefore, what they are pursuing is a body that is completely in sync with their spiritual power, a body that is nearly immortal with spirit not extinguished and flesh not collapsing."

Yan Hui explained the insect race's thoughts in detail, and the whole family couldn't help but look sideways. "How do you know?"

"After all, the research on the 'eternal life' project in the research institute was searched by the insect race. I also found some clues in the insect race's internal laboratory and made a comprehensive judgment."

"From Imperial Bug to Imperial Bug Queen, they are not born that way. More often, they are like Gu worms, existing through competition and mutual devouring. There was a long period of disconnection between this generation's Imperial Bug Queen and her so-called mother's generation.

Although I still don't know what the Imperial Bug Queen's insect core is so attractive to her, I can get a glimpse of it through the process of the Imperial Bug evolving into the Imperial Bug Queen. It should still involve devouring, and there may be unexpected effects...

Perhaps this is also related to their method of pursuing eternal life, which is why they are so crazy."

After saying that, Yan Hui's gaze fell on Mingmei, who was sitting on the edge of the crowd, and he sighed in his heart.

In that battle, Mu Chen disappeared, and Mingmei seemed to know something, but she didn't say anything to anyone.

Because of that battle, Mingmei directly submitted a request to the school to suspend her studies for half a year. Her family accompanied her during this time, but she was unwilling to talk to anyone.

Even Lu Xiaoyao, who often had video calls with her, found it difficult to get Mingmei to open her mouth.

Lu Xiaoyao was also very busy now, wanting to find such a lively person to bring Mingmei along—thinking of this, Yan Hui thought of Liu Liu.

However, after that battle, Liu Liu and the Main Brain's whereabouts were also very strange. When he asked Ruan Xun, Ruan Xun also had an expression that he didn't know anything.

Yan Hui's gaze was not subtle, and others naturally noticed his gaze. The family also quietly looked towards Mingmei, among whom Mei Shi was the most worried.

Mingmei must have felt everyone's gaze. She slowly stood up and said that she was sleepy, then left the living room. As soon as she left, Mei Shi couldn't sit still.

"I don't care! I want to go to the insect race again!"

Mei Shi slammed the table, and Ming Song cheered from the side, "Grandma, I'll go with you!"

"A Song!" Ming Qi glared at Ming Song, telling him to say less. As soon as he finished speaking, he was glared at by his mother. Mei Shi said in disgust, "It's better to have a grandson than to have you!"

Ming Qi: ?

Mei Qiu was watching the show there. Seeing that his gloating expression was too obvious, and Mei Shi was about to turn her guns on him, he quickly straightened his face and said, "Although we started preparing for the infrastructure of this Hua Yan Star a long time ago, it is, after all, a new planet, and many things still need to be adapted to and handled. I'm still busy."

As he said that, Mei Qiu looked at Ming Yi, who was silent on the side, and said, "Dad, do you have time to accompany Mom?"

The family didn't object to Mei Shi's behavior of going to the insect race's lair anyway, it was useless to object.

"I will naturally go," Ming Yi said, looking at Yan Hui. "However, how much damage did you do to the inside of the insect race last time? The inside of the insect race must have undergone considerable changes now. Are you going with us?"

"This..." To be honest, Yan Hui wanted to go, but looking at Ming Yi's murderous gaze, and then meeting Mei Shi's expectant gaze, Yan Hui's mouth twitched.

Ming Yi was so old and still playing this game!

"No, I still have a bunch of bugs to fix in this game... For example, recently everyone is saying that the boxed lunch selling NPC is not as cute as before."

Yan Hui lied through his teeth. Although Mingmei hadn't entered the game for a long time, the boxed lunch merchant NPCs, after awakening their consciousness, looked nothing like Mingmei except for their faces.

Their tempers were getting bigger and bigger  _(：3」∠)_.oγg

A few days ago, when Lu Xiaoyao was on vacation and streaming the game, she was tricked by the NPC and died miserably.

"Okay, then I'll go with A Ming. When the time comes—" Mei Shi thought of the missing person, and Mingmei's appearance of not wanting to speak, and said firmly, "We have to see the person alive or the body dead!"

…

It was raining, and thunder rumbled outside the room.

Mingmei leaned her head against the window, watching the raindrops that were shattered by the rain hitting the glass, and gently breathed a sigh.

"It's summer again..."

She muttered softly. Last summer, she and Mu Chen entered the Sixth Army. The summer that Mu Chen was supposed to take her back to the Mu family's old house was also gone with the destruction of Hua Lan Star and Mu Chen's disappearance. This summer, she was watching the thunderstorm alone again.

The optical brain on her wrist glowed frantically. Mingmei knew without looking down who was so tirelessly looking for her.

Mingmei sighed, she didn't even have time to feel melancholic.

"What's wrong, Xiaoyao."

"Wuwuwuwu, Meimei, you have to stand up for me! QAQ"

Looking at Lu Xiaoyao, who was crying with swollen eyes, Mingmei was a little confused about what happened to her when she went home for summer vacation.

"Did you quarrel with Julian again?"

"Don't wrong me."

Suddenly, Julian also appeared in Mingmei's eyes in the camera.

"You... Marshal Lu let you in?"

"No, I'm in a hotel."

Julian was a little guilty about what happened when he came to the Empire this time.

"Don't get off topic, Meimei, you have to help me!" Lu Xiaoyao cried so miserably, showing the scene where she was killed miserably in the game while streaming, which made everyone laugh to death.

"This..." Mingmei listened and slowly asked, "Isn't this your basic operation?"

Lu Xiaoyao: …

With a "wah," Lu Xiaoyao cried even more miserably. Mingmei looked at Julian, who just smiled awkwardly and said, "This matter is really not Xiaoyao's fault. The Boss inside is too fierce, and I can't do anything about it."

It seemed that Julian had also tried, but didn't succeed.

"I don't have any skills either."

"Yes, you do! Meimei, you don't know that the Boss looks exactly like the Big Boss. Good heavens! I said, why did the game company suddenly change all the Boss models? Why did they change them back in the new game! My god, this Big Boss is simply a cheat, just as powerful as before..."

"Just...as before?"

"Yes, just as before~"