Cen Yu also put away his mecha.

Perhaps because the team was anonymous, even after leaving the mechs, everyone remained masked and their identities were not revealed.

When Cen Yu got closer, he realized that Sleeping Bro was over 190cm tall. Even after Cen Yu got closer, he was still rambling on and on, "Is this dungeon really that easy? I don't believe it."

"Isn't this entrance too easy to find?"

"You haven't done this task before?"

“…No.” Sleepy Bro turned to look at Cen Yu. “To be honest, I’ve queued for this dungeon many times, and I can hardly find two people to fill it.”

"So this scene can't be triggered." He said, then burrowed underground. "Let's go down and take a look first."

Cen Yu glanced back at the parking lot. He could already sense the movement of the Zerg landing. He believed that soon, the Zerg simulated by the system would enter the underground parking lot.

He followed Sleeping Bro into this underground space.

After the two entered, Sleepy Guy groped around the wall for a while, and soon the car that had been moved by the mech returned to its original position, and the cover of the bunker was put back on.

The layout of the underground space is similar to that of the parking lot above. It is not very spacious, and some of the walls are temporary dwellings that have been carved out separately.

"How many people were here at the time?" Cen Yu asked, walking on the ground with a man, a weapon in his hand.

The entire underground space was dark, and apart from the sound of their footsteps, there was almost no other movement... There were still some discarded food cans on the ground, and the air smelled bad, with a slight stench of decay and poor ventilation, making Cen Yu wonder if there were still any living people here.

“The data says…only six survivors were rescued at the time.” The man walked ahead. “They left too late. I heard there were 300 or 400 people at the beginning, but the Zerg kept searching for them. Although there are many underground bunkers, there are even more Zerg.”

Cen Yu didn't speak, but he vaguely heard some rustling sounds.

The next second, a familiar-looking insect crawled out of the dwelling behind him.

Cen Yu raised his hand and used his specially made weapon to blow the insect's head off with a single shot.

"Bang!" The insect's body twitched a few times on the ground and then stopped moving.

"Not bad." The man whistled, reacting quickly.

However, this commotion seemed to have completely attracted the attention of the Zerg in this area. Accompanied by that teeth-grinding scraping sound, countless Zerg swarmed into the small area where they were standing.

The underground space wasn't big enough to deploy the mechs.

Even with specially made weapons, Cen Yu was slightly exhausted under the overwhelming attack of the insects.

After dealing with countless insects, Cen Yu's face and body were covered in their splattered juices... He wiped his face and cursed, "You're just going to watch??"

He discovered that while he was killing bugs, Sleepy Guy was actually standing there watching.

"Didn't the Imperial Military Academy teach you that?" Sleepy Guy jumped down from the high place, "When you encounter a large-scale swarm of insects... but your mech isn't with you, make good use of your mental power."

As soon as he finished speaking, Cen Yu noticed that the insect seemed to have suddenly lost its direction of attack.

It seems that a target for attack cannot be found for the time being.

"Make way." The man walked up to Cen Yu.

He held a long knife in his hand.

Cen Yu couldn't tell what material it was made of... but at the moment the other party released their spiritual power, he vaguely felt a little uncomfortable, a kind of inexplicable sense of crisis.

The man swung his long sword, and almost all the insects that had lost their target were cut in half at the waist.

“…Human strength is weak.” The man put down his long sword. “But spiritual power gives us other possibilities.”

"The Imperial Military Academy didn't teach these things?"

"Are you from the Federation?" Cen Yu looked up at the man.

"Haha, I'm a space pirate." Sleepy Bro sheathed his long sword, took something out of his pocket, and tossed it to Cen Yu.

Cen Yu took it and found it was a piece of cloth.

“Wipe the bug juice off your face,” Sleepy Guy said. “This place looks like it’s been overrun by bugs.”

He stomped on the insects on the ground a few times. "Do you recognize what kind of insect this is?"

Cen Yu wiped the strange insect juice from his face before looking down at the corpses of the insects on the ground. He remembered that this was a kind of insect that appeared in the first round of the beginner's guide... It seemed to be a combination of millipedes and other things from the Earth era, probably a low-level insect race with little self-awareness.

“These low-level insects aren’t particularly dangerous.” The man kicked away the insectoid debris that had appeared in the underground bunker. “They don’t have much intelligence; they just eat instinctively.”

Cen Yu glanced at his task.

The side quest to kill the Zerg is still not showing as complete—meaning that these low-level Zerg are not counted in the system's calculations.

After dealing with the insects, the two continued on their way.

Cen Yu was still pondering the matter of mental power. His own mental power level was not high. He tried to wrap his whole body with mental power and soon noticed some unusual movements.

Everything seemed to become clear and visible in his world in an instant.

The Zerg hidden in every corner, the powerful Alphas behind them, and the survivors.

As Cen Yu took a step in a certain direction, Sleeping Bro whistled again, "That's it, always let your mental energy envelop you."

“The teachings at the Imperial Military Academy are utter bullshit,” he cursed again. “Unless you spend your entire life inside a mech, your mental strength is the only thing that can protect you.”

“But everyone’s mental strength level is fixed,” Cen Yu probed.

He could sense the man's many grievances against the Imperial Military Academy. The man claimed to be a space pirate, but Cen Yu took it as a joke, since the simulator wouldn't allow space pirates to access the port.

"Haha, that's the theory of the Empire, or rather the Imperial Military Academy: everyone is born with a job and a place to be done," Sleepy Bro mocked. "People of lower rank can never surpass those of higher rank, no matter what they do."

"After all, the Imperial Military Academy is a place for the sons of nobles to gain prestige."

Walking up to Cen Yu, he extended his finger to block Cen Yu's attack, then lightly tapped Cen Yu's forehead with his finger. "Mental power is something that cannot be seen or grasped. How could it possibly have fixed levels like humans expect?"

"Trust your mental strength more, young master."

He stopped talking abruptly at this point, and Cen Yu noticed that they had arrived at the location where he had previously detected the survivors.

"Is anyone there?" Cen Yu asked, holding a weapon in his hand, as he looked at the haphazardly placed boxes.

"We came to the planet Nott to search for survivors."

Unfortunately, the person inside the box didn't react. Cen Yu shrugged, turned to Sleeping Bro, and said, "Looks like there isn't anyone. Let's find another place."

"No, no!" The box was suddenly opened, and even though the people next to him seemed to want him to shut up, the man still jumped out.

He looked at Cen Yu and Sleeping Bro with a embarrassed expression, "We!!"

"We are all survivors!"