On her way back to the dormitory, Cen Yu heard whispers from those around her.

They discussed the news that the eldest prince seemed to have awakened from his coma... When they returned to their dormitory, Lan Yao and Sang Huaizhou were also discussing this topic.

"The Crown Prince is awake?" Cen Yu walked over and sat down on one side of the sofa.

"A message from half an hour ago," Lan Yao said, glancing at Cen Yu's sweat-soaked clothes. "Where did you go?"

“A simulator,” Cen Yu said.

“The royal family hasn’t released any information yet.” Sang Huaizhou looked at Cen Yu, whose hair was still damp, stood up, took a clean towel from the bathroom, and tossed it to him. “But it’s probably true.”

"Does Li Chonghe know?" Cen Yu casually took the towel that Sang Huaizhou threw to him and covered his head with it.

“We all know, there’s no reason why Li Chonghe wouldn’t know,” Lan Yao said with a smile. “I heard he ran into Bai Jinyu in the training room.”

He didn't mention that the person involved also met Cen Yu, who vividly described this extraordinary love triangle in the Black Mud District—

Li Chonghe, who used coercion and enticement; Bai Jinyu, who spoke out for justice; and Cen Yu, who was "unyielding to force."

When the entire Black Mud Forum saw this amazing description, everyone asked in unison if Cen Yu had paid him to post in the Black Mud Forum.

[Wait, Cen Yu's online army is so arrogant, they've even bought into our Black Mud Zone?!]

[Hilarious! Do these three characters even know each other?]

[But what was Li Chonghe trying to do by coercing and bribing Cen Yu?]

"...Haven't you heard the news?"

[I've heard about it, but the question is, can Li Chonghe still count on Cen Yu to carry the team? Shouldn't he be the one carrying the whole team?]

So, it is love (hands clasped in prayer)

When Lan Yao saw the post, he also doubted that he had seen it wrong. He specifically checked the poster's account and was silent for a few seconds after confirming that the person was not posing as a person.

Then he discussed the news of the Crown Prince's awakening with Sang Huaizhou, but unexpectedly Cen Yu returned to his dormitory soon after.

"Were you nearby at the time?" Lan Yao asked knowingly. "What did they talk about?"

Cen Yu frowned, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Li Chonghe wants to team up with me."

"You agreed?" Lan Yao asked immediately, and Sang Huaizhou also perked up his ears.

"How is that possible?!" Cen Yu pointed at himself. "Me?"

“Every time the dormitory supervisors come to my office, they look at Li Chonghe with their eyes and wail, eager to seize power and welcome Li Chonghe back to the throne.” Cen Yu was not lying.

The dormitory supervisors were probably unaware of how much they wanted Li Chonghe to come back.

Every time he came to the office, he would first nod to Li Chonghe before asking him about this nominal minister.

As Cen Yu finished speaking, he stood up, preparing to change his clothes and take a shower. After taking a few steps, he suddenly turned back and asked, "How much do you know about Planet Nott?"

Lan Yao and Sang Huaizhou exchanged a glance. "An abandoned planet of the Empire?"

"After the Empire's evacuation operation ended that year, were there any survivors on Planet Nott?" Cen Yu asked.

Sang Huaizhou didn't understand what he meant at first, but he quickly realized that Cen Yu had seen some kind of mission scenario. "You mean the Nott Planet mission in the simulator?"

“This mission is indeed related to the final evacuation, but many changes have been made,” Sang Huaizhou said. “Some of those who were evacuated last disappeared at the spaceport on their way back from Planet Nott.”

"...disappeared in the spaceport?"

“Planet Nott has a special location,” Lan Yao said. “To get to many places, we need to make three space jumps, and the ships will stop at spaceports along the way.”

"I heard that during the last evacuation, more than 50 people were rescued... but 20 people went missing at the spaceport."

Cen Yu immediately recalled the secret experiments underground on Planet Nott mentioned in the original work, and he really suspected that these so-called survivors were related to those experiments.

"The Empire didn't go to them?"

“No,” Lan Yao said. “All of these people have become unregistered residents.”

"Unable to access the StarNet, they can only wander around junk planets or dangerous asteroid belts with space pirates."

"By the time of the final evacuation, the Zerg had already flooded into Nott... so the time for the space jump was extremely tight, and the search and rescue team at the time did not have the energy to deal with the survivors who had escaped from the spaceport."

"Of course, some people later suspected that the group escaped because they had a secret they didn't want the military to discover," Sang Huaizhou said. "Later, the Empire sent a legion to search Nott five times after the Zerg withdrew, but found nothing unusual."

"After that, the matter was dropped." Sang Huaizhou leaned back on the sofa. "The last remaining survivors were under the close surveillance of the Empire until several years later, when it was discovered that they had no problems and the suspicion against them was withdrawn."

"So this part of the simulator was also modified based on the actual situation at the time," Lan Yao said, looking at Cen Yu. "You've already entered the mission on Planet Nott?"

“Yes,” Cen Yu said.

"You chose the on-campus multiplayer mode?"

“Random StarNet,” Cen Yu said casually.

"Random access via the StarNet?" Lan Yao repeated. "Then you might get randomly selected from the Federation. Who did you get randomly selected from?"

“Huo Shen,” Cen Yu began, then, seeing his two stunned roommates, added—

“I said I was Li Chonghe, and he said he was Huo Shen.”

...

"Your Highness, it's been a long time."

As soon as Cen Yu entered the simulator, he heard Sleepy Bro's greeting.

"Good afternoon, Major General." Cen Yu nodded.

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