"Salye, are we really leaving like this?"
Of the four who just left the team, one acted alone, while the other three stayed together.
Among them, the boy who had previously challenged Mu Chen was clearly the backbone of the three.
"Otherwise what? Those guys are obviously in cahoots. They helped us out this time when things got into trouble, but who knows if they'll make the three of us take the blame next time something happens?"
Salye's petty-mindedness in judging others was actually quite reasonable to the other two.
When a group sticks together and something goes wrong, the first thing they do is exclude the least cooperative members and make them scapegoats.
"I underestimated the situation."
The other party was somewhat embarrassed. Although they were grateful to Mu Chen for saving them, they also remembered that Salye had mentioned to them privately that with that person's abilities, they wouldn't be in such a passive state if he hadn't left in the first place.
"Alright, let's leave here first. The direction the Zerg retreated from is completely different from this side, and the person here just came from the same direction. This side is much safer than other areas."
Salye and his team have a very simple idea right now: find a secluded planet to rest and then—go hunting.
It's relatively safer to catch a lone Zerg player and work together to kill them.
They landed in their mechs on a relatively remote primitive planet, only to find that someone had arrived there before them.
Who is it?
The three of them watched warily from their mechs as something resembling an escape capsule lay quietly not far from where they had landed.
Is anyone there?
The three of them did not immediately step forward, but still called out this warning cautiously.
"It seems like something happened and they escaped..."
The only female player among the three spoke up, "Isn't this an escape pod from a starship?"
"Something really urgent must have happened. They didn't even have time to put on their mechs before they had to escape through the escape pods."
Their previous starships were also equipped with escape pods, but there were too many Zerg outside at the time. They were forced to eject from the escape capsules, and if they were intercepted midway, they would not even have a chance to fight back.
Therefore, everyone who can fly out in a mech basically assumes it's a mech.
The creature that escaped in the escape capsule and is still motionless here is clearly severely injured.
Is anyone there?
The three shouted again, and at that moment the escape capsule stirred slightly, slowly opening from the inside, revealing a seemingly harmless young man sitting up inside.
They clearly saw the fleeting blankness on the other person's face, but when the other person looked at the three mechs, the surprise and joy in their eyes was something no one could hide.
"You—you've come to save me?"
The other party waved excitedly at the three of them. After confirming that the surrounding environment was safe, the three of them got out of their mechs, put them away, and walked up to the other party.
"Hello, we are Salye, Cage, and Qina from the Fifth Military Academy."
Salye took the lead in introducing himself, and the young man opposite him, who seemed to be slightly weaker, then honestly introduced himself as well.
"My name is Nanami Kui, and I'm from the Second Military Academy."
Nanami smiled shyly, then seemed to remember something and asked urgently, "By the way, did you...did you see our starship's distress signal?"
"Huh? What? Where is the starship's distress signal coming from?"
The three were taken aback at first, but then honestly shook their heads; they had not received any distress signal.
However, none of the three spoke directly. Instead, Qina spoke first to Seven Sea Anemone, asking, "What happened to your starship? Are you sending a distress signal?"
As she spoke, Qina pointed to the escape capsule behind Nanami, the meaning of which was self-evident.
Given your situation, why are you still asking us?
As soon as Qi Na finished speaking, Qi Haikui's face turned pale, and then everyone saw a flash of fear in his eyes.
It seems they really encountered something terrible.
"We, our starship was flying just fine, and then, then a group of very terrifying insects appeared!" Nanami said, her body trembling uncontrollably, which made the three of them look serious and worried.
"What kind of insect is this? It's so scary!"
Suddenly, it seemed as if an unknown and terrifying enemy had appeared, and their description instilled in them a fear of the unknown.
This fear made them restless; they didn't want to encounter such a terrifying being again.
"I don't know, it just happened suddenly... the starship was severely damaged. Many of us wanted to escape in escape capsules, but things changed too quickly..."
The fear in Nanami's eyes was genuine. As the three looked at each other, Nanami silently lowered her head and concealed the strange light in her eyes.
He was indeed terrified on the starship just now.
The reason they were terrified wasn't the Zerg.
It was because they encountered Mu Chen and his team's mechs.
What does a mere insect like it have to fear from the Zerg?
From the moment Mu Chen's mecha approached their starship, Nanami had a very bad feeling. The seniors who were traveling with them were excitedly talking about how they were trying to trick this "idiot" who was piloting an S-class mecha onto the ship.
He didn't care what others thought; the more he listened, the more alarmed he became.
Is this Mu Chen?!
Holy crap, is this guy deliberately testing me because he figured something out?!
It was at that moment, when a woman's voice suddenly spoke, that Nanami's strong survival instinct made her run away.
As for his seniors, he had reminded them, but no one paid any attention to him!
So he had just escaped through the escape capsule when, in the blink of an eye, the starship was blown to smithereens.
This was the second time he had done this, and he knew the way well. However, he was still maintaining a human body. He had been thinking about where to deceive people next, but now, he had delivered himself to them.
"So what are you planning to do next?"
Qina handed a handkerchief to the other party. After thanking her, Qi Haikui wiped her forehead and muttered, "I was wondering if you could take me flying for a while to find a suitable starship or something so I can continue fighting."
"Huh? You don't have a mecha?"
Qina was taken aback, as she couldn't see any storage compartment for the mecha on the other person's body.
"Ah, I was running too fast back then, and my mecha's memory chip accidentally fell out, otherwise I wouldn't be trapped in this capsule..." A hint of regret flashed in Nanami's eyes, as if it were really true.
Zerg? Where did these mechs come from?
"Then you can come with my mech from now on." Salye expressed his sympathy for Nanami and offered to take him along, "so you can look out for each other on the way."
"Ah, that's great~ Thank you." Nanami Anemone looked at the other person's face with a "touched" smile and said, "Thank you so much, Salye-kun!"
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