"I'm very curious, how do you know so much about space pirates?"

After handling a series of matters, Hu Mingli still managed to pilot his mecha to Qilan Star late at night to have a "candlelight dinner" with Yan Hui face to face.

Of course, Yan Hui hadn't expected this either.

He actually had a good plan: come here, don't work overtime, and enjoy a retirement life.

Taking care of a child, how can you stay up late to work overtime?

When the topic was discussed during dinner, Yan Hui raised an eyebrow upon hearing his question: "General Hu, aren't you the same? You've wiped out so many space pirates, don't you know everything perfectly well?"

"When I was fighting, I mostly sneaked up to their base. I didn't witness firsthand their discovery of planets, plundering populations, and mining. Although textbooks mention it, it's not as detailed and realistic as what you describe in your game. It seems—I do have experience as a space pirate."

As Hu Mingli spoke, he picked up his wine glass and drank, but his gaze remained fixed on Yan Hui's face. Yan Hui knew without looking that there was a hidden meaning in his words.

"The younger generation is being silly, dreaming every day about conquering the stars and the sea. As an elder, I naturally soften my heart. It's just playing house with the kids."

Yan Hui smiled, put the sliced ​​roasted meat into his mouth, and smiled slightly, describing the days when he used to cause trouble on the border with Ming Qi and Mei Qiu as a child's play.

Hearing this explanation, Hu Mingli almost spat out the red wine he was drinking.

He's the only one who dares to call this kind of "family drinking party".

"We only wiped out a space pirate gang and used their starships to cause trouble everywhere. We didn't do any of those illegal things like plundering people or seizing resources. That was the only time we went a little too far..."

Yan Hui looked at Hu Mingli with a half-smile as he spoke, the rest of his words clearly related to him.

When Hu Mingli was young and impetuous, he was caught by Mei Qiu, and Mei Qiu's treatment of him was indeed quite wicked.

Stripping someone naked and hanging them up—that would be an indelible stain on anyone's history.

Even though the two have become good friends, it doesn't mean that Hu Mingli doesn't remember what happened back then.

Upon hearing Yan Hui's words, Hu Mingli immediately looked away, laughing to himself. He didn't want to bring up the embarrassing incident from the past, so he quickly changed the subject: "How much of the game based on the history of the ancient planet Blue Star is actually true?"

"At least most of it, they left the details to themselves."

Yan Hui reached out and picked up the wine glass, glancing at the deep red color inside, and sighed almost imperceptibly.

"Major General Hu, have you ever played games?"

"Me? No, it was my subordinates who played it and told me about it, which is why I find it unbelievable." Hu Mingli followed Yan Hui's lead and started talking, "I didn't expect that there would only be a few dozen space pirates."

A few dozen people have manipulated a planet with billions of inhabitants at will.

"Hahaha, not just anyone can become a space pirate. Besides, space pirates never send out their entire force. Dozens are already a lot."

Yan Hui smiled and looked at Hu Mingli, then asked in return, "Every time you suppress bandits, even if you go to the pirate strongholds, there aren't necessarily many pirates there, are there?"

Speaking of this, Hu Mingli's expression became somewhat serious. Before Yan Hui could continue, he said, "In the entire pirate stronghold, there are only tens of thousands who can truly be called pirates, but they have many slaves of all kinds that they have plundered, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands."

Resettling these slaves, whose lives had been almost completely destroyed, was a huge undertaking after each bandit suppression operation.

Sometimes they weren't just humans; there were also non-human races like orcs and mermaids. That's one thing, but many more humans who became slaves had their minds destroyed long ago.

They don't remember where they came from or who they are. They know nothing except for numbly obeying others and doing those menial tasks of serving others.

This is also one of the reasons why Hu Mingli hates space pirates.

Yan Hui's game doesn't show what happens inside the pirates' lair; it only shows the pirates raiding outside.

“These genetically modified, low-quality sprays are still circulating on the black market.”

Thinking of this, Hu Mingli's eyes also flashed with murderous intent.

Their Sixth Legion had indeed engaged in buying and selling goods on the black market; they had been involved in such activities extensively.

For this reason, in order to forcibly break through the closed planet and plunder and sell the "population" on the discovered primitive intelligent life on the planet, the first step is to make them adapt to outer space, and genetic modification is an essential process.

Only space pirates would buy and sell these crude gene-modifying drugs on the black market.

“Of course, the universe is infinite. No one knows if there are planets with intelligent life on the undiscovered frontiers. We dare not go to those places, but space pirates do.” Yan Hui finished speaking, then sighed and said, “We have been confronting the Zerg for too long. They have been trying to infiltrate us, but none of us have thought of going into their territory. Perhaps, in places we don’t know about, in the Zerg’s domain, there are other races.”

None of us have gone to see their living conditions, or to understand why they invade and wage war. Is it simply an aggressive gene etched in their memory?

"That's something new."

What Yan Hui said was impossible for Hu Mingli himself, at least.

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