"If I had known there was fresh water on the starship, I wouldn't have needed to buy these boxed meals."
"Yeah, there's not only water but also nutrient solution... So, is this game deliberately trying to trick us? Making players sell boxed lunches, is this some kind of attempt to sow discord among us classmates?"
"I think so. Although I was mentally prepared and heard from our teacher that the Sixth Legion was quite...unusual, I still didn't expect it to be like this."
"So you're saying that we, the ones who get criticized, are the ones who get to bear the brunt of the criticism when players play the role of the mysterious merchant?"
...
This is a conversation that Mingmei overheard outside the Starship's restaurant today between two players who had bought her lunchboxes.
She had initially thought that some people would say bad things about her, but it turned out that not all of them were like that.
Mingmei just felt that instead of speaking ill of her, she should speak ill of the mysterious merchant!
This is worse than hearing your own voice!
Is my reputation really that bad?
Mingmei decided to ask Guigui.
[No, host, it's not your bad reputation, it's the mysterious merchant NPC.]
What's the difference? I'm playing the role of the mysterious businessman!
"But not all game merchants in games are played by you, host." Ghost said, observing its host's emotional changes. It spoke quite frankly, but simply left out the rest.
The mysterious merchant NPCs in those games were all based on Mingmei's original personality.
Its host's past as a lazy bum and socially awkward individual meant that this mysterious merchant NPC didn't have a very high reputation among many players.
When needed, it's often impossible to find someone. And when you do find them, the overly excited reactions of some players lead to the evolution of other behaviors in the game's merchant NPCs, which, based on their cheerful personalities, have developed further.
For example, some mysterious merchant NPCs will turn around and run away from players who are overly eager to please, while others will refuse to buy from them or approach them.
If any player wants to play the aloof and indifferent card in response to the above situation, the mysterious merchant NPC will say: "Hey! Another day of lazing around!"
Therefore, some views on the mysterious merchant NPCs are a bit too extreme—a mysterious NPC, even a dog wouldn't chase after him!
While concealing the fact that the mysterious merchant NPC stemmed from Mingmei's bright personality, Guigui did tell Mingmei the famous saying that even dogs wouldn't chase after someone, causing Mingmei's lips to twitch slightly in surprise.
This is unbelievable!
What kind of comment is this?
"Then this round I'll be selling lunchboxes..."
Mingmei silently withdrew her gaze, and as soon as she turned around, she met Mu Chen. Mu Chen was very straightforward when he saw Mingmei, and said directly, "I want to buy another boxed lunch."
"Huh?"
Mingmei was somewhat surprised by Mu Chen's support, and she glanced at the direction of the starship restaurant behind her out of the corner of her eye.
The meaning is self-evident.
"The food on the starship is not plentiful, and—for us, it's not enough to fill us up."
Mu Chen gave his explanation.
"How could this be? The nutrient solution isn't working either?"
Seeing Mu Chen nod, a hint of understanding flashed in Mingmei's eyes. She realized that her comment about the boxed lunch couldn't possibly be so trivial, or even reduced to a mere backdrop for the bottled water.
So this is where it was?
"It's not that it's useless, it's just that compared to others, it's of very little use to us. Moreover, the amount of nutrient solution is not enough. Although we replenished a lot of food on Ancient Blue Star, the nutrient solution was useless, let alone the food from Ancient Blue Star."
Those NPCs might not feel this way, but we players feel it very differently. If Mingmei hadn't overheard the conversation between those two, she might have believed it too.
While the two were talking, Mingmei had already taken the other's hand and was going to her room to get a boxed lunch. Along the way, she also heard that it would take some time for them to be able to contact the Empire.
"The starship's communication system has clearly been tampered with to prevent signals from being tracked. It also has its own specific settings for the signals it sends out, which Guderian will break through later."
“That will indeed take some time.” Mingmei nodded slowly, then remembered something and said, “These past two days, I’ve noticed that everyone’s spirits are low, especially when we left Ancient Blue Star yesterday.”
Over the past two days, Mingmei has wandered around many places in the slave quarters and other parts of the starship, and has seen many people with sad or melancholy expressions.
Some people stared out the window in a daze, some shed tears silently, and some cried out loud.
The atmosphere in most places is very oppressive.
"Yes, I've already discussed this with the others. Lu Xiaoyao will lead everyone in the activity later."
"Activity?"
Mingmei knew that Lu Xiaoyao, as the female anchor of the comedy section, had the ability to make everyone laugh, but she was surprised that he would entrust everything to Lu Xiaoyao to direct.
"I'm not some kind of tyrannical despot." Mu Chen shook his head helplessly. "Of course, this kind of thing should be handled by professionals."
Just as Mu Chen said, the intervention of a professional like Lu Xiaoyao was indeed very effective, and the atmosphere on the entire starship improved significantly after a few hours.
Therefore, he directly bought two roujiamo (Chinese hamburger) with Mingmei to praise himself.
"Eat slowly, no one will take it from you."
Mingmei saw Lu Xiaoyao finish half a roujiamo in one bite. She wanted to advise Lu Xiaoyao to take smaller bites, but then she saw the roll of her eyes as she swallowed, which almost scared Mingmei to death.
As a result, Xiao Yao drank several mouthfuls of the deer-shaped drink that Mingmei handed her before she felt better.
Once she recovered, she immediately explained, "I was really starving! You have no idea how hungry I was when I was leading everyone in singing and dancing..."
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