Mingmei: "..."

I was suddenly flirted with!

"I'll take you to see my shop tonight~" Although Mingmei didn't explicitly tell Mu Chen that she sold boxed lunches, a knowing look flashed in Mu Chen's eyes when he heard Mingmei mention the shop.

"good."

Before they knew it, the two had reached the first floor. Mingmei saw a large pool of blood on the ground but no body. Her mental preparation was no longer needed. She was even a little surprised: "This person didn't die and ran away?"

"No." Mu Chen looked at the pool of blood and saw no footprints left by anyone who had escaped. There was just some blood splattered around it.

"The body has been moved?" Mingmei noticed the surroundings and exclaimed in surprise, "So fast?"

"Well...after all, corpses are valuable too."

Mingmei heard Mu Chen's soft voice clearly. She turned to look at Mu Chen and asked curiously what the value of a corpse was.

“Last night I went to the black market and someone was selling these. As… food for other races.”

Bright and beautiful: !!! !!!

...

Outside of the game,

"I never thought a game could persuade those aliens in the sea to surrender."

Yan Hui didn't even look up, keeping an eye on the new game's progress while Hu Mingli, who had come over to join the fun, said, "Even when your starship mechs come to our doorstep, people are still afraid and come over aggressively to hack your system. Do you expect me to 'save all living beings'?"

"So, I'm also curious why you want us to help you expand your game business to outer space."

Hu Mingli naturally knew that a game couldn't achieve that kind of huge effect.

But since Yan Hui had brought it up, the so-called "showing the real skills in the game" was just an excuse. So he was curious about Yan Hui's real reason for doing this.

"Firstly, let these students see what 'the wickedness of human nature' really means."

As Yan Hui spoke, he brought up the incident where Hu Mingli sent people to impersonate space pirates to capture people, saying, "You can only fool these naive and innocent kids. You can't fool someone with a bit of experience. A fake is a fake, and they'll have to suffer the consequences sooner or later."

"So you're letting them suffer in the alien sea you've constructed?"

Seeing Yan Hui nod, Hu Mingli chuckled and asked curiously, "I'm wondering, how do you know so much about the Outer Star Sea?"

Yan Hui listened, his eyes meeting Hu Mingli's emerald green eyes with a half-smile: "How did you get information about those people's hiding place? That's how I found out."

Since everyone has their own special information channels, there's no need to say more.

Hu Mingli chuckled softly, as if to say the matter was over, and asked, "And the second one?"

“Secondly…” Yan Hui turned to look at the game data and said softly, “Some people used to say that what’s scary in my escape game isn’t the terrifying scenes that give you nightmares all night, or the invincible bosses, but rather—emotions, intense emotions that make you addicted and unable to extricate yourself.”

Whether this intense emotion is beautiful or painful is a matter of personal opinion.

This time, all the new recruits from their legion were deployed to the Alien Sea region after entering the game, while the players from the Alien Sea were deployed to the peaceful environment of the Empire.

“A person walking in the darkness suddenly sees the light, which warms and illuminates him. Even if he knows it is just a fleeting mirage, he will eventually be lost in the beauty of the light.” Mu Chen said, looking up at Hu Mingli and smiling brightly. “They will go mad about it after the game is over.”

"I just want them to be good people in the game, to have happy and fulfilling families, with friends and family around them, and then witness firsthand how some people in the alien sea shatter these dream bubbles."

Yan Hui's voice grew softer and softer as he spoke. After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Hu Mingli, and his deep eyes sent a chill down Hu Mingli's spine.

“They will become addicted to it; all the beauty in the game is like an addictive drug for them.”

"Then you underestimate those ruthless characters in the Outer Sea. They're just indulging in this illusory bubble; they wouldn't have lived that long in the Outer Sea."

Hu Mingli, however, felt that Yan Hui was oversimplifying things. They were all monsters who had lived in the alien sea for so long; would they so easily fall for this kind of fake warmth in the game?

Upon hearing Hu Mingli's words, Yan Hui knew that the other party probably hadn't played his game much.

Yan Hui smiled without saying a word. Some people seem calm, detached from the illusion of the game, not indulging in that illusory warm emotion, but they don't necessarily have much attachment to reality.

It's even possible that people might develop a strong aversion to the real world because of the vast difference between reality and the game.

Rejecting beautiful illusions, loathing cold reality...