"Wait a mininute!"

Six mechs floated several thousand meters above the planet, and not far from them was the planet's defensive shield.

After all the players had set up the mechs' communication channels, Lou Jia was the first to call a halt to all the players' actions.

"Look at the Zerg distribution map."

Lou Jia sat in the mecha's control room, with a three-dimensional interstellar map centered on their planet in front of him.

There is one in front of each player.

The star map showed that outside their planet, different species of Zerg, represented by different colors, were densely packed together, forming a dense, interwoven pattern that surrounded their planet like a sphere.

The sight sent chills down everyone's spines.

Lou Jia felt as if he had instantly returned to their professional command class.

I experienced the tension of being caught by the teacher and bombarded with questions once again.

Different kinds of insect queens, insect generals, and countless advanced insects were at the forefront. If it weren't for the limitations of game design, in reality, these would be enough to instantly destroy the planet they were on.

Looking at the display image, Mingmei recalled the scene in "Prelude to Blood Battle" where she and Mu Chen were suddenly surrounded and chased by the vanguard insects.

Looking at the distribution map in front of her, she felt that the previous encirclement and pursuit were nothing compared to the real battle.

"The closer to the planet, the higher the level and combat power of the Zerg, while further away, there are only low-level and mid-level Zerg. What's going on?" Zhen Po said irritably, and asked Lou Jia curiously, "Brother, have you ever seen this kind of situation in the command department?"

Lou Jia: "..."

In Lou Jia's command class, the teacher had cited countless examples.

The teacher had analyzed the Zerg's common formations and combat methods in every battle between humans and Zerg. He had also privately studied many obscure and small-scale Zerg combat styles.

He had seen such a brutal scene of being surrounded by countless Zerg in a document before.

Fifteen years ago, an asteroid primarily used for entertainment facilities, built by the Empire, was attacked by a queen insect leading five insect generals and countless insect soldiers.

At that time, they used the insect queen and insect generals as the vanguard to destroy the asteroid with overwhelming force, including all the people on it.

This time, however, it's even more outrageous.

However, perhaps fearing it would affect morale, Lou Jia chose to conceal the truth: "No, it's just a game... after all, it's just a game."

“Actually, the purpose of this game design is quite obvious, isn’t it?” Lu Gui suddenly spoke up, “Either we improve our combat skills and fight these insect generals, or even insect queens, right at our ‘home’s doorstep, and then try to capture one as food.”

Either we improve our escape skills, break through the encirclement to the outer perimeter to hunt down ordinary Zerg, and then break through the encirclement again to return.

Lou Jia remained silent upon hearing Lu Gui's words, but Yuan Fang cursed the planner, "The two options you mentioned are completely unrealistic. Either way, you'll end up in a dead end. Only a planner would dare to design something that's designed to kill players."

Yeah, that's so mean!

[Help, I don't even want to think about it anymore. Don't be fooled by how easily my little brother talks about it; like this handsome guy said, one wrong move and we're all wiped out.]

This is basically forcing players to either die quickly or be slowly and painstakingly worn down to death, giving them a choice between the two.

Why are you all so pessimistic? Can't you just believe they can surpass themselves and dominate the world?

[A rampage across the land... Insect generals, insect queens, and an army of thousands of insects, wielding A-class mechs? Seriously, have you even read any war history? Do you think they're General Mei Qiu in his SS-class mechs? Or Marshal Barbara, whose physical training in her younger days surpassed human limits?]

[Actually... the Federation also had a Major General who killed three Insect Generals with an A-class mech back then, and was posthumously promoted to Major General...]

[What a pity! The opponent perished in the end, leaving no trace. Glory endures, but the person is gone.]

[Hey! The objective this round isn't to kill Zerg, it's to cook! All you guys know is how to kill Zerg!]

[Ha! You can't even kill bugs, and you're talking about cooking? Dream on!]

...

Mingmei was distracted by the dense barrage of comments in Lu Xiaoyao's live stream. When she came back to her senses, she realized that Mu Chen had not joined the conversation at all.

"What's wrong?"

Mingmei reached out and touched Mu Chen's hand, which was now somewhat cold, completely different from its usual temperature.

"Feel sorry."

Mu Chen unilaterally shut down the players' internal communication channel, turned to look at Mingmei, and said earnestly in her concerned eyes, "Maybe I was wrong this time, dragging you down with me to our deaths."

Mingmei: "How so?"

"I think... the formation design of this Zerg team was not designed by Mr. Yan Hui."

What do you mean by that?

"Role-playing; there should be real Zerg among the Zerg outside."

Bright and beautiful: ? ? !!! !

[Actually, your Uncle Yan Hui's holographic escape game has many more functions than you can see~]

Mingmei recalled once again what her uncle Ruanruan had said to her.

"How could this be...?"

Brightly, her heart pounded. She dared not ask him directly if the insectoids were "serving their sentences" here like him.

"Is it a waste to make use of waste? Destroy the physical body, extract the spiritual power from the insect core and keep it alive in the game, to provide some overly realistic battle scenes for those who need it... such as military academy students, army simulation exercises."

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