The woman hesitated for only a second before approaching the door of the cold storage.

The door was metal, with scratches and bloodstains on it, suggesting that some battle had taken place here not long ago... Cen Yu looked up at the surroundings of the passage. From the time they encountered the monster until now, there hadn't been a single living person in any of the rooms in the entire passage.

I don't know if it was eaten by that monster or for some other reason.

The door seemed quite heavy; the woman struggled to finally push it open.

Just as the other party had said, the room inside was probably a cold storage room for storing supplies at first. There were some discarded plastic bags on the ground. Cen Yu went over to take a look and found that it was a sign for frozen chicken nuggets.

In one corner of the wall were several huge iron hooks, suggesting that some meat had once been hung there.

Maybe it's slaughtered pigs, cattle, sheep, or something...

The cold storage was still operating. Huo Shen leaned against the door, bracing one foot against it, seemingly to prevent the door from closing suddenly. Cen Yu and the woman walked into the cold storage.

“...This used to be a cold storage,” the woman said.

"In the beginning, there were many things here."

She told Cen Yu, "But then, no rescue team arrived... so everyone started scrambling for food." She thought for a moment and added, "We were unlucky; we missed the first group to leave."

Cen Yu didn't speak. He knew this person was lying. Since they were entrenched in the broadcasting room, how could they not know about the withdrawal signal?

He turned around and glanced at Huo Shen, who was still holding a weapon in one hand and remained vigilant.

"Your teammates really came here?" Cen Yu asked.

“This cold storage isn’t very big. According to what you said, they started looting the food at the beginning, so it shouldn’t be this clean.” His gaze lingered on the empty cold storage, but he didn’t see any signs of looting.

The ground was clean and tidy, with no messy footprints or signs of a struggle during the robbery.

It was obvious that the supplies here had been systematically emptied... He recalled the walls in the third space covered with written communication languages ​​and guessed that when everyone first entered the underground space for refuge, someone must have quickly organized a team to ensure the distribution of supplies.

If the other party was underground from the beginning, they should have known all this.

"...I don't know." The woman suddenly looked away from Cen Yu's question.

“We arrived at the Third Space very late,” the woman said hurriedly. “I guess they must have stolen the food from the icehouse.”

Cen Yu didn't speak. He knew the woman was an NPC. There was no artificial intelligence in the simulator; everything was a pre-programmed routine and a copy.

"Where were you before entering the third space?" Cen Yu asked again. "I mean, you and your companions."

“We came from somewhere else,” the woman said, “an underground base 30 kilometers away from here.”

She seemed worried that Cen Yu wouldn't believe her, "We didn't receive any news where we were. By the time we realized something was wrong, they had all evacuated, leaving only a few people underground..."

"They said the facilities at Third Space are excellent, so we're here to give it a try."

"Get out of the way," Huo Shen suddenly said.

Cen Yu instinctively avoided it.

The next second, Huo Shen raised his weapon and ended the NPC's mission.

The system notification sounded again, indicating that they had eliminated a space pirate... Cen Yu was a little confused. He turned around and looked at Huo Shen, who was still holding the icehouse door open. He hadn't expected the other party to move so quickly.

—This was the first time he had doubted Huo Shen's identity.

Because the other party was so decisive, even though it was a simulator, these people felt so real.

He was able to attack the "survivors" in the previous space without any burden because he knew they were not human, but monsters parasitized by insects.

Huo Shen acted too quickly and without hesitation, as if he made the decision the moment he knew the other party was a space pirate.

"How did you find out?" Cen Yu asked.

“The base 30 kilometers away is completely empty,” Huo Shen said. “That was the first base to be captured by the Zerg, and zero people were evacuated from there.”

He said this in a very calm tone, "Everything in the simulator is a recreation of the original context, there's no reason why something went wrong here."

"Besides, how did they get to the Third Space from 30 miles away?"

"If it weren't for the mechs, or the Zerg retreating," he pointed to the sky. "The Zerg never left, and ordinary people don't have mechs at all."

"The space pirates knew the location of these underground shelters, but perhaps they were worried that mentioning a location that was too close would make us suspicious, so they said it was 30 miles away," Huo Shen said.

Cen Yu didn't say anything.

He wondered if he could find out if he searched for information on the StarNet right now that the number of people evacuated from this base at that time was 0.

Including Huo Shen's previous statement that he had indeed participated in the team's rescue... even if Cen Yu didn't want to believe it, he guessed that the person in front of him was most likely Huo Shen.

"But what are space pirates doing here?" Huo Shen asked again.

"They deliberately came in at this time... Do they know some secret?"

Cen Yu felt that even if there were secrets, they would be randomly generated copies of the content by the simulator.

They cannot create unfamiliar areas, but these recreations are only of high probability. Important planets will not appear in the simulator. Generally, they will appear as some insignificant planets, but with distinctive terrains that are suitable for combat training.

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