Professor Dude confirmed Xu Piao's guess.

"Ever since Hewlett discovered those plants and animals were edible and sent us some samples, we've been breaking down their composition. We unexpectedly discovered..." he said with some difficulty, "that many of the elements contained in those plants and animals appear to be essential to the human body. This means we may have been feeding on those plants and animals before we started taking the supplements."

Xu Piao thought about it for a moment and pieced together a general situation based on Professor Dude's words.

After the current alliance leaders arrived in this galaxy, the first thing they did was to separate the adults and children among the surviving interstellar people. However, it is estimated that they would not specifically solve the food problem for those children, so the nutritional supplements must have been turned into "food" for the interstellar people to absorb energy at that time.

The effect of this decision was very obvious. The physique of the interstellar people changed imperceptibly. They gradually became unable to digest normal food and had to lie in the medical cabin for anything they ate. On the contrary, people like Xu Piao, who lived on a third-class planet and consumed poor-quality nutritional supplements, were more able to adapt to natural food.

"By the way, the company that produces nutritional supplements...?"

"It's an alliance industry that's directly controlled by the alliance's top management. Compared to other decentralized virtual network technologies and artificial intelligence technologies, only nutrient production technology has never been disseminated." 079 knew what Xu Piao wanted to ask after just hearing the beginning, and answered.

Xu Piao understood.

With such a limited supply of survival supplies, coupled with a virtual world far richer than the barren realities that numbs the desire for resistance and the pursuit of actual freedom, the vast majority of people will obediently become lambs kept within the virtual world, and the number of people experiencing ideological awakening will be greatly reduced. The Alliance's top brass may seem like a bunch of idiots, but in reality, their calculations are quite sound.

"So what are you going to do next?" Xu Piao looked directly at Li Sheng.

When Professor Dude explained the situation, Li Sheng remained very quiet and didn't react much. His expression was always calm and steady, but Shi Xu Piao guessed that he might not be as calm as he appeared on the surface.

"Make full preparations. When the Alliance can no longer tolerate this and prepares to go to war, we'll announce the truth. It'll be soon," Li Sheng said. He then looked at Professor Dude and said, "I'm sorry to ask you to stay on the third-class planet until the results come out. If it's convenient, your student and companion can be brought here by the Interstellar Rangers."

Dude had already defected to the third-class star, so of course there was no objection, and he agreed to contact the students and companions.

However, after finishing his discussion of the Alliance's high-level affairs, Professor Dude's expectant gaze at Xu Piao remained unchanged. After laying the groundwork for so long, he finally asked, "Those civilizations and cultures revealed in the games you created...are they our lost cultures? Where did you find them?!"

Xu Piao hadn't expected that this was the reason why Professor Dude looked at him so excitedly and expectantly. After a moment's hesitation, he replied to the old man, "I don't know."

Professor Dude asked, "Don't you know what it is specifically?"

"No." Xu Piao shook his head. "The culture shown in my games originated from a nation called Huaxia. What I mean is, I don't know if this is your lost history."

——After all, this was not mentioned in the original book of the book she wore.

That's just a simple sweet romance novel about a holographic online game! How could there be such a complicated alien invasion?

This subject matter exceeds the standard by a lot.

The elderly professor became visibly depressed.

In the end, it was Li Sheng who persuaded Professor Dude to leave, saying that they could try to find more information to see if it matched up. After Professor Ren Lao left, Xu Piao glanced at Li Sheng, "You don't seem to be surprised by the origins of the alliance's top brass? Did you guess this before?"

Li Sheng shook his head.

"What is that?"

"I'm wondering if Mother had already discovered something, which is why she chose to stay with Father when she finally had the chance to leave the First-Magnitude Star." Li Sheng looked up at the observation screen in the central control room, which showed the galaxy of the universe facing the First-Magnitude Star. Seeing Xu Piao's puzzled expression, he explained to her, "Mother graduated from the Central Academy. After graduation, she joined the Alliance Center as an official and once stepped into the upper echelons."

That is to say, those who engage in politics.

"What happened next?" Xu Piao asked.

"She and my father have known each other since childhood. When my father returned from a journey on a remote planet, campaigning for the ideals of freedom, my mother met him. It was during that conversation that she came to agree with his ideals and wanted to rise to a higher position to implement them."

It was the first time that Xu Piao heard Li Sheng talk about the story of the original owner's parents.

She listened quietly to Li Sheng continue.

…

In the virtual network at the same time.

Shi Yue, who is addicted to "Daydream Recap" and obsessed with his senior brother, is finally ready to step into the martial arts game "Bu Liuxing" on this day.

Because...if she doesn't find a way to make some money, she really won't be able to support her senior brother QAQ.

The first two events had Pei Junhuai's event card plots, so Shi Yue had to draw for sure. However, even the lucky ones always have failures. For example, last time she spent more than 150 draws to draw the ancient national teacher Pei Junhuai. She was happy after drawing him, but all the tickets she saved were gone. If she fails again next time, she will definitely have to recharge a lot of money to force her senior brother to marry her.

However, most of the Alliance Coins that Shi Yue earned in the previous game were used to buy special medical cabin treatment fluids for her father, and the rest were used for family expenses. She couldn't use those Alliance Coins to top up the game, so she could only find other ways to earn Alliance Coins.

Shi Yue has experience. In large-scale multiplayer online games like "Bu Liuxing", there are generally many ways to make money. You can sell props, game currency, rare dropped items, and work in dungeons. These are the skills that Shi Yue is most proficient in.

Shi Yue, who was a god-level nurse in the original novel, carefully selected a sect that could nurse people according to the introduction - Kongchan Mountain, after entering "Bu Liuxing". Then, she followed the novice tasks seriously all the way, upgraded properly, and left the sect to venture into the world.

As a result, before she could even walk out of the sect's mountain, she was suddenly kidnapped by a group of passing indigenous NPCs.

The passing NPCs were all armed with weapons, either swords or machetes, and dressed in pitch black. They didn't look like good people. Shi Yue had been abducted along with several other NPCs and players. If there was anything they had in common, it was that the players were all from sects that offered healing. The abducted NPCs included men, women, and children, with the elderly being the majority. All of them were healers.

Shi Yue, who is always lucky when playing this kind of game and can easily trigger hidden tasks, also keenly smelled the scent of a hidden task this time.

"Do you know what's going on?" She didn't ask through the channel where players could communicate with each other, but instead asked directly in a low voice.

"I don't know. I was just picking herbs on the roadside when I was spotted and caught by these men in black." said a player who was a disciple of Kongchan Mountain like Shi Yue.

"I'm almost there, no, I'm even worse off! My last mission was a time-limited mission, and I reached the very last link! But I failed miserably!" Another player held his head, wanting to cry but unable to.

Several other players made similar remarks.

It seems that the players have not received any information. Shi Yue turned his attention to the NPCs who were also abducted, and tentatively spoke to the nearest kind-looking old lady.

The old woman shook her head. "So many doctors were captured. I think they were there to treat someone. As for the rest... little girl, it's best not to delve into it. The more you know, the faster you'll die."

Shi Yue: ...But I’m a player!

She had no choice but to find a way to ask other NPCs, but the other NPCs either had the same attitude as the old lady, or kept their mouths shut and didn't say a word.

However, just when Shi Yue thought that there would be no more notifications, a young man sitting in the corner suddenly glanced at her and kindly reminded her, "Girl, these people have internal powers. Your movements will not escape their eyes and ears. Why don't you sit down and wait for a while?"

Shi Yue paused, turning this sentence over in his mind for a few seconds, and suddenly understood what this person meant. He walked over and sat down next to him. "Thank you for the reminder. May I ask...?"

"My name is Fu Guanyu," the young man said gently and politely, "What would you like to call me, young lady?"

"My name is... Shishi." Shi Yue reported his ID in this game.

"Miss Shi." Fu Guanyu readily followed suit.

Shi Yue looked at the man's gentle appearance and couldn't help but frown secretly.

She didn't know if it was because she had seen Pei Junhuai and didn't want to see other people act like gentle gentlemen, or if it was an illusion for some other reason, but she always felt that the gentle, polite and gentlemanly appearance of this young man named Fu Guanyu was a little fake.

But if you ask her to tell what's fake about it, she can't say it for a while. She can only say that she has been with Pei Junhuai for a long time, and subconsciously knows what kind of impression a truly gentle gentleman should give people.

"Miss Shi?" Fu Guanyu felt that Shi Yue was looking at him with a strange look, and her smile paused. "Is there something on my face?"

Shi Yue came back to his senses and said quickly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was just wondering where these people were going to take us..."

"Blood Moon City."