However, to be honest, I still feel like something's off.
Not sleepy at night, Mingmei sat alone on the edge of the bed, wrapped in her clothes, turning her head to look at the flickering candlelight, her eyelashes trembling slightly.
She looked down at the sleeping Mei Jiu and started chatting with Gui Gui in her mind.
[Host, what do you find strange?]
[This whole incident has nothing to do with Xie Chen.]
Why does it have to be related to him?
Isn't he the main villain?
Mingmei remembered what Guigui had told her during the day about Mu Chen and the villain sharing a body, and guessed, "Could it be the power of the plot? Since Xie Chen couldn't appear for a while, the plot had to push other guys out to stir up trouble?"
[Host, have you forgotten about the Zerg?]
"oh……"
When the Zerg were mentioned, Mingmei couldn't help but exclaim "Oh!" before immediately falling silent. She glanced at Meijiu, who was still fast asleep, and breathed a sigh of relief.
I remember that bug... it also had Xie Chen's face. People thought Xie Chen was being targeted and framed by evil spirits, but...
Even without a bright smile, the ghosts already know what the host means.
[Yes, they're clearly in cahoots. But isn't Xie Chen afraid that if that bug does something bad, he'll pin the blame on him?]
[How can you discredit him? Didn't you see there were always people around him? This provides evidence of his alibi, further highlighting the evil cultivator's despicable nature. It also emphasizes his own bad luck; even if he does it himself later, he can easily claim it was the evil cultivator.]
Mingmei explained the villain's mindset to Guigui, which left Guigui amazed.
[Host, are all villains like this?]
【Hmm... at least I would do the same if it were me.】 Mingmei still remembered the lesson her mother had taught her—bad people have no bottom line. When trying to understand someone's evil, never put yourself on some high ground to look at them, but rather imagine yourself as the villain standing at the bottom.
Think about what other actions you might take that could cross the line.
However, as Mingmei spoke, she realized she seemed to have gone off-topic again, so she tried to recall her initial train of thought and asked, "[After all this time, what role has Xie Chen played in all these storylines?]"
【I don't know either.】
This game should have been very advantageous for Mingmei, but due to certain settings and the fact that her character's initial age was too young and she couldn't run around alone, she became quite passive.
It's no exaggeration to say that Lu Xiaoyao knows more information than she does now.
...
"Wow, are you serious or not?"
Although the matter at Bibo Yaoshan was over, the people on the mountain couldn't come down for the time being. Lu Xiaoyao, Lu Gui, and the other players on the mountain found another opportunity to get together that night.
Right there in the newly built kitchen of Wanjianmen, a group of people were having hot pot.
While they were eating hot pot, they shared their experiences and observations.
Originally, Lu Xiaoyao and Julian suspected Lu Gui, but after being arrested together in the far north, they had a heart-to-heart talk and resolved their mutual suspicions.
Among them, the news brought by Lu Gui was quite shocking.
"New bugs? Are you sure?" Charlie was the first to be stunned. "Are you sure it's a new bug?"
"Otherwise what? I'm not like Lu Xiaoyao, sleeping in class and not remembering anything from the textbook."
Lu Xiaoyao, who was engrossed in eating hot pot: ? ? ? ?
What does this have to do with me, Lu Xiaoyao?
I, Lu Xiaoyao, have not offended any of you!
“I’m pretty sure that the shape of that insect is not something we’ve seen in class,” Lu Gui said, adding a piece of meat and stuffing it into his mouth. Madison and Charlie, who were Buddhist practitioners, stared wide-eyed.
I'm craving it, I want to eat it.
It's just that you can't eat it.
Otherwise, when they go back tonight, the big monk will chase them all over the house.
"But I remember it was said before that what was locked in the game was the spiritual form of the Starfire Insect General?"
A player from the Ten Thousand Swords Sect also realized something was wrong. After speaking, he turned to look at Lu Gui, and seeing Lu Gui slowly nod, he instantly widened his eyes and blurted out: "You don't mean to say that this insectoid is not a Starfire Insect at all, but an imposter, right?"
"My God? This is outrageous!"
The other players were also extremely surprised by this guess.
There are Zerg that can impersonate or imitate other Zerg or other races, but they can only imitate their appearance.
A spiritual entity can never be imitated.
But this insect seems different; it can mimic the spiritual bodies of other insects.
Furthermore, this is a spirit entity at the level of an insect general.
“If it’s not a Starfire Insect… then it must be at least at the level of another Insect General…” Mandison’s eyes showed a hint of worry. “Is there another high-level Insect race that hasn’t been discovered yet?”
"Perhaps it's not necessarily at the level of a general-level insect," Lu Gui said, his tone suggesting he was making a bold guess. He added, "Do you think it's possible it could be the insect queen?"
"Huh? Are you kidding me? The Queen of Insects? You can't just casually put the Queen of Insects into the raiding party? If one of them had died back then, even if we didn't know, would the Zerg have let it go?"
Madison disagreed with Lu Gui's guess. He dipped a mushroom in hot water, chewed it for a while, and then said, "Is this new kind of bug real? I just want to know... Are your eyes really reliable? Is there some kind of trap in the game settings?"
"My eyesight is very good." Lu Gui was very confident in his eyesight.
"Why don't we all think about what our respective sects have encountered? What do you think that insectoid race is trying to do?" After a long while, Lu Xiaoyao, who had finished eating the meat in her bowl, couldn't help but ask again while cooking new slices of meat. "You see, every sect has its own problems. Besides, I've heard from you that many of the players you know who have transmigrated into independent cultivators or immortal cultivation families have also had some troubles. What do you think... what exactly is this game trying to do?"
"Who knows?"
After being stumped by Lu Xiaoyao's question, everyone chuckled and fell silent, mocking themselves for ruining their gaming skills.
The group huddled together, increasingly confused about the game's plot. Everyone was so engrossed in it that they couldn't see what the game was all about.
"Actually... let's look at it another way."
Lu Gui thought for a moment and said, "We entered the game not to investigate any evil spirits or to handle sect affairs, but to investigate the traces of the Zerg, right?"
In other words, the key question is: what is that bug trying to do? Regardless of the trivial or even outrageously serious events we encounter, the most important thing is whether that bug is involved. And what is its purpose in getting involved? That's also crucial.
Besides... even outside of the game, who doesn't have their share of chaotic and petty things happening in their daily life?
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