However, the fact that the other party has a good personality is not a reason to say that Qiao Xiyu is particularly capable.

"I heard that Qiao Xiyu is probably the most powerful person in the Federation in recent years, and he is even a student of the Federation President."

"A student personally adopted by His Excellency Gustav?" Mei Qiu asked, looking at Hu Mingli with a puzzled expression.

He had never heard of the federal president taking on students.

"I don't know about that, but that's the official news," Hu Mingli said. Mei Qiu responded indifferently, "Looks like you've been quite free lately, even having time to listen to gossip."

"Meiqiu!"

Hu Mingli glared at the other person after being rebuffed like that.

This person has always seemed to be someone who can't say anything nice, from the past to the present.

“I’m not like you, only listening to what’s good about you. When you were famous, some people in the Federation compared you to that colonel who supposedly died together with the Zerg Queen. Wasn’t it because they couldn’t stand Durant saying you were the first person to kill the Zerg Queen?”

Hu Mingli felt that the other party couldn't say anything decent, and he himself could be quite sarcastic and sarcastic.

"Really?" Mei Qiu raised an eyebrow. "But you, you seem quite pleased to hear someone insulting me, don't you?"

"That's right, it's only when someone insults you that I realize not everyone in this world is blind."

Their playful banter didn't damage their friendship, but it just meant their friendship wasn't very strong _(：3」∠)_

"Like I said, I'm entrusting my sister to your care."

The two teased each other for a while, but Mei Qiu eventually returned to her serious demeanor.

Similarly, Hu Mingli nodded, but said, "I will do so without violating the rules."

"That's enough."

Mei Qiu let out a soft chuckle, and their conversation ended peacefully.

After ending her conversation with Mei Qiu, Mei Qiu contacted another person.

"Mingsong, I feel like there's something you haven't told me?"

...

"My God, that was so dangerous!"

After resting, Mingmei and her group didn't linger in one place. Instead, they actively searched for their remaining teammates.

Sure enough, they soon encountered another starship with the same configuration and specifications as Lu Xiaoyao and her group's original one.

After confirming that everything was normal on the starship, Mingmei and Muchen accepted the invitation to board the starship.

The starship was mostly filled with students from the Second and Third Military Academies, and even two of them had interacted with Mingmei and her group during an exchange program between the eight academies, which helped them integrate into the group more quickly.

Listening to their previous experiences, they marveled at the perilous situations they had encountered, and at the same time, they were amazed by their strength.

"If we encountered such a situation, we might end up with a few survivors..."

When a student finished speaking, those around him nodded almost imperceptibly.

That's a fact, and they didn't mean to admit they were ashamed.

Some of them looked at Mu Chen and Ming Mei and asked curiously, "Could you tell us more about the hidden insectoid race?"

"Yes, that incident was terrifying. It infiltrated our ranks without us even realizing it; it was impossible to guard against."

They were more afraid of being blatantly surrounded and killed by the Zerg than of disappearing without a trace; the thought of it was terrifying.

"First of all, I don't know if you noticed, but there were no warnings of internal intrusion on this starship."

After entering the game, Mu Chen went through all the starship functions in the control room. Mingmei also remembered that Mu Chen was standing there when she entered the game; he was looking at these things.

Regarding the alarms, he noticed that there were no internal intrusion alert messages.

"Huh? Is that so?"

Seeing the bewildered looks on everyone else's faces, Mu Chen knew that they obviously hadn't noticed.

"Before the Hidden Zerg were discovered, each starship had a detection system for small creatures that could infiltrate the starship during battles. Not to mention that after the Hidden Zerg emerged, all the detection systems on the Legion's starships during their service life were upgraded, especially the mental fluctuation detection system for the Zerg, which is now available in Legion bases, on starships, and on racks."

After Mu Chen finished speaking, he saw that the pilot of the starship had indeed checked his starship as he had said.

"Oh no, there really isn't any."

"They probably thought that removing the Zerg mental fluctuation detection function directly would arouse more suspicion, so they simply removed the whole thing. This way, at most people will think that the game was made without it to save time."

After Mu Chen finished speaking, the group's expressions turned even worse; they hadn't even noticed such a huge flaw.

Seeing that everyone was in low spirits, Lu Xiaoyao quickly comforted them:

"Well, these things are indeed not easy to spot. Besides, like the expert said, even if we do figure it out, we usually don't think about it in this way, right?"

However, Mu Chen still added insult to injury: "Isn't it basic procedure to check the unfamiliar starship or mech you're about to pilot or control?"

Everyone: 0.0?

"So, did you see it and immediately think there was a problem, or... why did you think there was a problem here? Maybe the game design was simplified?" Some people have to admit the differences between people, but few are willing to humbly ask for advice after admitting it.

Mu Chen glanced at the boy with glasses, a baby face, and curly hair, and said:

"Because when I was piloting the mech, I discovered that this function was also missing from my mech. My mech is my real-life personal mech, and since I didn't make any changes when uploading and syncing the data, it can only be said that the game intentionally filtered out this function."

Once might have been a coincidence, but were the other two unintentional?

When talking about their private mechs, several other people present also had private mechs, but they still didn't notice.

"Besides, this game is for military training, and its functions and operations are only more difficult than in reality. It won't be simplified just because it's troublesome, unless there's some ulterior motive behind the simplification."

After hearing Mu Chen's story, everyone felt even more devastated.

"I see." The curly-haired boy nodded to himself, then asked, "So how did you tell that the person in the mecha wasn't human? Was it just because of their unusually enthusiastic attitude?"

When the boy finished asking the question, he even thought, "Is this even more enthusiastic than when they warmly welcomed Lu Xiaoyao and the others onto the starship?"

"No, it's just that Meimei and I have very strong mental strength, and we are more sensitive to mental fluctuations like those of the Zerg."

After Mu Chen finished speaking, Mingmei, who was under everyone's gaze, had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Ever since she used her mental power to stimulate the fluctuations on the insect queen crystal core carried by Jin Yi, causing irreversible and terrible effects on the insect race, she also suffered a bit of backlash at that time.

However, after she recovered, Mingmei realized that she was very sensitive to the mental fluctuations of the Zerg.

After Mingmei finished speaking, everyone around her fell silent once again...