"As soldiers of the Empire, dying on the front lines is both an honor and a matter of resolve!"

Lou Jia sat inside the damaged Canglang mecha. The damaged cockpit had a crack the size of a human head. At this moment, his face was covered in blood as he listened to the countdown in his headphones. His eyes flickered as he looked at the hideous insect head outside the mecha. Then he heard Mu Chen's words in his ear: "Congratulations on wrapping up filming."

"Congratulations..." Lou Jia grinned at the Zerg creature that was trying to see if he was dead, followed by a blinding white light...

When Lou Jia came to his senses again, he was back in the game interface. He looked at the grayed-out "Prelude to Blood War" on the game screen and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This game truly felt like a journey through a battlefield; every moment of the game is deeply etched into my mind.

Lou Jia didn't even want to look at the score tally again; he was already quite satisfied with the game being completed.

He logged out and came out of the game pod. He had learned too much from the game. For a moment, he picked up his personal computer, but Lou Jia didn't know what to do.

Are you going to Starbucks for surfing?

Or should we just search for information about the Sigma military fortress from back then?

As he pondered, he looked down and saw that his personal computer's communication settings had 99+ messages and countless missed video calls.

Loujia: ? ? ?

I opened the most recent voice message from a good friend: "Lou Jia! You did an amazing job in the game this time!! I heard from the college teachers that they're planning to hire you for this year's recruitment promotional video!"

Loujia: !!!

Suddenly, Lou Jia remembered that the game was being streamed live. He didn't know the plot and didn't expect many people to watch his stream. But the more he played, the more he realized that the plot was wrong. He had just finished playing the game and had forgotten about the live stream!

It looks like it's working well?

Lou Jia dialed his friend's video call, but as soon as he turned it on, several faces suddenly appeared in front of him, startling him.

"Senior! You're so handsome, even in the game! Senior, are you single? Can I say I want to pursue you?!"

There were clearly several people on his friend's end at this moment. A girl he didn't know confessed to him right away, and the widowed king Lou Jia, who had always been focused on his studies, blushed for once.

...

The same popularity was also seen among several other players. Even Madison, who died relatively early, gained a lot of popularity after leaving the game due to the character filter, which inexplicably improved his public image.

Of course, Julian and Charlie are not included in this popularity.

The two playing the hidden Zerg are truly brothers in misfortune.

Charlie received an invitation from the college's mental health center as soon as he logged off. (M.cascoo.net)

Normally, post-game psychological counseling is standard procedure, and he doesn't care about it.

But why is this psychological scale a questionnaire for measuring antisocial personality disorder?

Don't assume that just because the title says "Stress Self-Test," it's a stress self-test question! He really thought it was just a stress self-assessment chart!

He even minored in criminal psychology last semester!

He had seen some of the psychological scales used to assess crime!

Is it because people think his portrayal of the Zerg is too vivid and lifelike, and therefore they consider him a pervert?!

The key point is that the Zerg character he played had a lot of information and many tasks. He was only focused on completing those tasks for the sake of credits!

This isn't him "revealing his true nature"!

He's a pure, upright, and future human military officer!

It's all for academic credits QVQ!

You have to believe me!

Instead of checking if he has antisocial personality disorder, why not check his lineage?

How unlucky! I got drawn as the Zerg, such a hateful race.

Compared to Charlie, Julian's situation was even more dire, because of the two players playing the Zerg, Julian's performance was far more hated.

Poisoning a player, giving advice to another Zerg player, and then taking one with him before he died—this made him even more deserving of criticism than Charlie.

Therefore, after leaving the game, he was taken directly home to his house—the Federal Presidential Palace.

For the first time, Julian stood before his father, the president, who bore a striking resemblance to him, yet his heart was pounding with anxiety, like dozens of rabbits were scurrying about inside him.

It wasn't that his father was intimidating; it was mainly because there were other people in the room.

Inside the room sat a dozen or so of his father's advisors, who formed a circle around where he was standing. When all those pairs of eyes fell on Julian, he knew he was in deep trouble.

"I knew about the hidden Zerg a long, long time ago."

Julian's father, the president of the Federation, Louis Marvis Gutaev, and his son got straight to the point.

"Father?"

Julian stared at him in disbelief, then Louis said, "Thanks to this, the Federation has discovered many hidden Zerg over the years, and this time we wiped out the Zerg that had been hiding in the Federation for many years."

Julian: !!!

"Because of this matter, our Federation owes the Empire a favor. The Empire's hidden Zerg forces are more complex than ours, which is why we have been cooperating with the Empire without announcing the news to the outside world. Even the entire eradication operation was only completed in the last two days."

“Then…then I…” Julian suddenly felt that his mind was not quite working.

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