"Shh-"

Mingmei made an excuse to leave the control room. Thinking about what happened when Guderian inspected the starship, Mingmei's thought process unexpectedly turned to the same place as Mu Chen's this time.

In the darkness, a person suddenly appeared in front of her. Before she could make a move, that familiar, cool fragrance lingered around her nose. Brightly looking up, the vague outline in the darkness was enough for her to recognize the person's identity.

What are you doing here?

"Shouldn't I be asking you that?"

Mu Chen was also surprised that Mingmei wasn't in the slave quarters, but a second later he thought of a possibility and asked, "Has the slave quarters already rioted?"

"Mm." Mingmei nodded.

Mu Chen couldn't help but say, "This is much faster than I expected."

According to the plan, Hu Yue and his group needed to make a significant commotion outside before he could find and disable the control switch on the slave quarters' gate, releasing the people inside.

But so far, he has not received any signal.

After Mu Chen finished explaining his plan, Mingmei's eye twitched violently. Could she say that all of this was because of her and Lu Xiaoyao?

She secretly ran away, and Lu Xiaoyao shouted for help, which attracted the space pirates who were supposed to be ambushing you by Hu Yue and the others, resulting in the current situation.

"Emmmm, I'm not really sure either. It's just that I'm not an NPC, so I have a way to get out... hahaha."

In the darkness, Mingmei couldn't see Mu Chen's face clearly, but after her awkward laugh, she clearly heard a faint vibration in his voice.

She could tell he was laughing!

"Everyone else is locked in the slave quarters. How did you get out, and what are you doing?"

"Infiltrate the enemy's ranks."

As Mingmei spoke, she recounted the farcical background-filling incident involving her role as an NPC, leaving Mu Chen completely bewildered.

Is this game really that overpowered?

"Who knows?" Mingmei couldn't help but rub her forehead. "I'm really in a dilemma now. Helping you is wrong, and not helping you is also wrong. Tell me, how did a perfectly good undercover agent from the space pirates turn against me?"

"Perhaps—for her beauty?"

Mingmei was stunned for a moment, then felt a tightening around her waist as Mu Chen pulled her into his arms. Above her head, only his voice came, "The space pirate fell in love with her captive, and betrayed her for love?"

Gui Gui: [I'm disgusted! What kind of plot is this? I disagree!]

Bright and beautiful: [...]

This plot point is a bit melodramatic. After all, she's not someone without principles.

Abandoning one's principles for the sake of appearance?

[I'm not that kind of person (Even if the host is that kind of person, don't say it so blatantly!)]

Mingmei and Guigui simultaneously voiced their inner monologues.

Bright and beautiful: ?

Gui Gui: ...

"I think you'd better not write stories like this." Mingmei subtly expressed that Mu Chen's "romance script" was too cliché, and suggested that Mu Chen was more suited to scripts about psychopathic killers.

Mu Chen: ?

What did you find here?

Realizing that their images in each other's eyes seemed a bit off, Mingmei asked Mu Chen how long he had been there and if he had discovered anything, in order to avoid hurting their relationship further.

"This starship is equipped with energy stones, offensive weapons, genetic modification drugs, mechs, and escape pods."

She had already inquired about all the bright and beautiful things at Mu Chen Club, but she hadn't expected there to be so much.

That's it?

"There's still nutrient solution?"

That's it?

"It's gone."

The two fell silent. Such a large starship and you've crammed so little stuff into it?

Anyone would be speechless in this situation.

"I just remembered something in the control room on the planetary pirates' side," Mingmei said, expressing her concerns about the gene-modifying serum.

"Even if this starship can carry so many people, once it takes off, those who haven't undergone genetic modification still won't survive. There are also the side effects of this genetic modification."

With such a high mortality rate, Mingmei felt it was cruel to use it on those chosen.

But if you don't use it, you're guaranteed to die; if you do use it... there's still a glimmer of hope.

However, the cruelty they feared seemed insignificant in the absence of gene-enhancing drugs.

"No matter what, let's take down the starship first. You've been here for so long, have you thought of any solutions? There's probably going to be a big commotion at the slave quarters outside."

Mingmei couldn't help but feel worried when she thought about Lu Xiaoyao.

...

Ouch! It hurts!

Lu Xiaoyao, who had fallen to the ground while hugging the robot and inexplicably become its cushion, felt as if her stomach had been moved.

Immediately afterward, she endured the pain and tucked her limbs under the robot. A series of clattering sounds and a burning smell made her realize that the robot she was wearing was broken.

"Get out of the way!"

An NPC rushed over to Lu Xiaoyao, shoved aside the robot that had been destroyed by the other robots, and pulled Lu Xiaoyao up from the ground.

The moment Lu Xiaoyao stood up, a burst of blood suddenly bloomed on the temple of the NPC who had saved her a second earlier.

She had just escaped death and was still smiling when she was about to thank the other person, only to see them fall in front of her.

"Big brother, what do you guys do? You're so skilled!"

"Public servants of the people, glorious military and police."

Wow! You're amazing!

"Little girl, you're amazing! You look so small, yet you have such great power inside you."

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