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The system prompts kept ringing annoyingly, but Su Su just kept moving forward. There was no supply point, but there was always plenty of fuel and ammunition. He replenished the stocks in advance and set off in one go.

"White-scaled shark? Where are you going?" [You Lai Wu Hui] also noticed Su Su's unusual movements.

"I'm going to kill the queen worm." Su Su's clear and bright voice was transmitted to the ears of all players and spectators through the communicator of the main control console.

There was a moment of silence in the communication channel. Although [Go but No Return] had expected this, he was still a little shocked when he heard Su Su say in such a casual tone, as if he was just going out for a quick meal, that he was going to kill the queen worm.

He was silent for two seconds. "Are you planning to just run over there? How is this different from committing suicide?"

I would actually be happy to see Su Su die and be eliminated, but not now.

He was the commander. If he allowed Su Su to leave rashly and go to the Zerg to die, he would be seen as an incompetent commander. If someone was instigated by Su Su and followed him, it would cause him to be short of manpower and lose defense, which would affect his game score.

"Come back." [Come but not return] ordered sternly: "If you want to be a hero, you should choose your time! With the current strength we have, it would be very risky to defend. If we attack rashly, we will die."

"Besides, how do you kill the queen? Do you know where the queen hides? Even if you can find her, she will be protected by the strongest males. The highest level of the insects we have encountered so far is S-level, so the level of the males is likely to be one level higher. Your starship is only S-level. If you encounter an SS-level male, can you handle it?"

This was not only referring to Su Su, but also a warning to some players who were eager to follow.

"You've come but never returned. Are you worried about me?" Su Su's voice was somewhat teasing. He didn't think there was any good intention in this cat-crying-over-the-mouse behavior.

"Risks. There are risks everywhere in war. You want me to lead the sharp knife team to deal with S-level Zerg. Is there no risk? Since both defending and attacking have risks, why can't I choose the one with greater benefits? If you want to be like a turtle, hiding and waiting for others to save you, that's your business. I was surrounded and beaten by a group of Zerg for a long time. It's impossible for me not to retaliate."

"Have you ever thought about what would happen to our defense if everyone acted like you, and how many casualties would we suffer?" [Go, No Return] said righteously: "Don't take this lightly. Have you ever thought about this? If this is a war, and your departure causes problems in the defense, you will kill people!"

"Why go to the battlefield if you're afraid of death?" Su Su got angry when he talked about this. Why should he be deducted points because of the death of his teammate?

Su Su was so angry that his voice became higher and his tone became more impolite: "People who can't protect themselves should stay in the Imperial Star. Why drive a starship here to hold others back? Are we here to protect our teammates? We are here to kill the Zerg."

【Go but no return】Retreat to advance: "Can you not act on your own? Can you listen to other people's opinions? Otherwise, let's vote together. If there are more people who support attacking the queen, I can let them go with you to fight the insect tribe."

"Are there any? Are there any who support abandoning the guard supply point and attacking the queen worm directly?"

All the players remained silent. After all, this competition was a point-deducting system. Killing the queen worm did not give any extra points, but if you died on the worm planet, you would be eliminated. It would be better to hold on here. As long as you hold on long enough, others will be eliminated.

Even the word "simplify" was not mentioned.

In this game, the upper limit of monsters is S level.

The true strength of SS-level Zerg is unknown to other players, but [Simplifying the Complexity] knows it. From S-level upwards, the strength of each level is a completely different concept. It is impossible to drive an S-level starship to kill SS-level Zerg.

Moreover, all the way from here, we have to face countless Zergs alone, and the consumption of ammunition and fuel is huge. Let alone dealing with SS males, it will be difficult to get there.

"Master, why do you need to say so much to him? If he is willing to die, isn't it better for us?" [Wu Shi Mo] sent a message to [You Lai Wu Hui] using the private chat channel.

【There is no return】 disagreed and retorted: "You can't say that. I am now the temporary commander and I am responsible for the lives of everyone here. I will try my best to hold on until the expedition returns with the least casualties."

People in the conference room were also watching this unexpected turn of events.

It was indeed an accident. When designing the level, I never thought that someone would choose to raid the queen's nest directly.

The driver who had previously praised “There is a come but no return” clapped his hands after hearing the other party’s self-confession: “Hey, see, I told you that there is a come but no return, and you can still tell the difference at the critical moment.”

The person who refuted the argument immediately curled his lips: "It's just nice words. If he didn't have some acting skills, how could he fool so many people into working for him."

“You are prejudiced.”

Several people started arguing in the conference room again. Jian Cheng received a message, looked down, and reported to Qi Hanyi in a low voice: "The game side sent an inquiry, saying that they did not expect the current situation. If [White-scaled Shark] runs again, he will be outside the competition map. Unfortunately, his points in the first two games were very high, and he has not lost all his points yet. Ask us how to deal with this situation."

It's not the fault of the game developers for not considering the situation. Ten points will be deducted for each escape from the battle zone. The points of ordinary players can't stand such a deduction. Most of the powerful game players with high points are cautious. Since they already have a way to pass the level, why bother to do this and get eliminated?

Besides, the upper limit of their game is S-level, whether it is starships or monsters. They have already sent out the strongest monsters, but they didn't expect someone to run behind. All the data of this game is restored based on the real starships of the Zerg. Without the data, they really can't make SS-level male insects.

It would definitely be too late to make a new map temporarily, and it would be a pity to directly eliminate a player who could be ranked in the top three in terms of strength.

One driver suggested: "Why not let him go back? He was a bit rash. After all, he is a good talent. It would be a pity to eliminate him like this."

Qi Hanyi did not accept it, but said to Jian Cheng: "Give them a copy of the SS-32 simulated battle map."

"What?"

"What!"

"Which one?"

"Did I hear you right?"

The drivers collectively lost their composure.

Even Jian Cheng, who was always calm and steady, showed a bit of pity this time: "But that... for players, isn't it a bit too difficult?"

It's more than just a little difficult. A group of drivers cast sympathetic glances at the White-Scale Shark. They just hope that the people will return. The admiral is directly sending them to their deaths.

The SS-32 simulated battlefield map is a special training map for the expeditionary force. It indeed simulates the insect tide brought by the migration of SS-class queen worms. Its combat mission is to go deep into the insect tide, find and kill the queen worm.

But this is not a single-person training map, but a team training map for the entire assault team.

This map contains four SS-level male insects, dozens of S-level insects, and tens of thousands of low-level insects. The other insects are fine, but anyone who has played this map will be impressed by the four SS-level male insects. Their abilities are different, but when they work together, they are extremely terrifying. If you don't have enough experience, you may fail even if you have the best skills.

When the Expedition Starship Assault Team was first established, they fought hard in this map and were wiped out again and again. Some people even complained that there was no solution and it was impossible for anyone to beat it.

They fell silent only after Qi Hanyi, in front of all of them, cleared the training map alone with the training starship. After countless training sessions, they finally succeeded in clearing the map.

Later, this map became a tradition for recruiting new members. Every newly formed team must be baptized by this map. Only those who can beat this map can be recognized by the assault team and have the qualifications to be a member of the team and step onto the real battlefield.

Everyone present here is an elite starship pilot in the expeditionary force, and they have all suffered from this picture in the assault team.

But at that time, they were driving the most advanced SS-class combat starships in the military, and they fought in squads. If they really wanted to kill the queen worm alone on this map in an S-class starship like Su Su did, everyone in the conference room thought they couldn't do it.

Except for the one on the throne, of course.

The drivers now felt very sympathetic towards [White Scale Shark]. They even worried that this map would leave a deep shadow in [White Scale Shark]'s young heart. After all, judging from his eyes, this young man should still be very young, at most the age of a university student in the Empire.

The drivers screamed silently in their hearts and accused their cold-blooded admiral with their eyes: He is just a child, how could he do such a cruel thing to him!

"Is it difficult? A real SS-level insect nest should be this difficult." Qi Hanyi stated in his usual cold tone.

A female driver was quite optimistic about Su Su and tried to plead for him: "White Shark is so greedy and reckless, he should be taught a lesson...but why use a sledgehammer to kill a chicken? He is alone, and he is also a player who has not received professional training. He took our team combat training map, right——"

His plea was interrupted, and Qi Hanyi asked, "In a real war, would the Zerg show mercy just because he is alone?"

Of course not. The female driver closed her mouth in embarrassment. She thought to herself, it seems that the general is determined to teach the other party a lesson.

But she immediately started to wonder, isn't this the person the admiral favors? If the white-scaled shark is eliminated, what's the point of competing with the hammer?

"Well, although his operations are a bit unconventional, some of his operations are still quite eye-catching."

Seeing that he was about to be eliminated, the other drivers couldn't help but feel sorry for Su Su.

"Isn't it? If he has the opportunity to study in the military academy system, he will definitely be an excellent starship pilot in the future."

"My family has a quota for internal referrals to the Imperial Military Academy this year. If I can find this player, I would be willing to recommend him."

"This player is very talented and brave. To put it bluntly, skills can be taught and learned, but talent and temperament cannot be learned.

Qi Hanyi, who had been listening to their discussion in silence, suddenly spoke up, sounding somewhat puzzled: "Do you all think he's going to be eliminated soon?"

This question confused the others. What do you mean by "we think"? Didn't you use a map that was impossible to beat to send him out by yourself?

"Inform the game to add a hidden reward." Qi Hanyi turned his head slightly and told Jian Cheng: "The condition is to kill the queen worm, and the reward is to skip the semi-finals and advance to the finals."

Jian Cheng was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand what Qi Hanyi meant: "You think that White-Scale Shark has a chance to clear this map alone, so you want to add a special bonus for him?"

"Inappropriate?" Qi Hanyi asked. He did have some concerns in his heart. He wanted to maintain fairness as much as possible, but Su Su could always create some unexpected situations. He could not care about what others thought of him, but he cared about what others thought of Su Su. He hoped that Su Su's victory would be fair and deserved in the eyes of everyone.

"There's nothing inappropriate about it. If he can really do it, it's reasonable to recommend him as the top scorer." Jian Cheng tried to organize his words: "But I'm worried that this reward may not be given out."

"This is not something you need to worry about." Qi Hanyi: "What do you think?"

"No objection." The other drivers smiled regretfully, thinking that if he could really pass the test, we would have no objection to him getting first place, let alone the finals.

"It's settled then." Qi Hanyi made the final decision and signaled Jian Cheng to communicate with the game party.

Su Su had already flown out of the defense area of ​​the supply point. After a while, he entered the dungeon that Qi Hanyi had chosen for him.

Because time was running out, the spatial connection between the two copies was not particularly natural. Su Su could clearly feel a strange sense of dislocation in the surrounding space, and the direction of the insect tide was also slightly different.

However, this made Su Su more certain that he had found the right path. There were no SS-level Zerg in the game. Perhaps his choice broke the original design of the game and temporarily added a map.

Su Su's decision to look for the queen worm was not a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Since entering the game, Su Su has been thinking about what he should do if this is a real war.

Su Su didn't know how to deploy troops, and couldn't see the tricks in the defense map at a glance, but even he had to admit that the arrangement of "Go but never return" was very reasonable.

According to the "Go but No Return" plan, they will stay here for four or five hours until the expeditionary force returns. Most of them will survive, and it will be a happy ending for everyone.

But Su Su did not like this ending. The military academy cadets were not strong enough to fight against the Zerg, so they could only try to survive under the Zerg's attack and wait for rescue?

Why? It's not like he can't beat him.

Who is the prey and who is the predator? Why does he have to be trapped in the insect attack and wait for others to rescue him?

This is a battlefield, they are wearing the combat uniforms of the expeditionary force, and at this moment, they are here as expeditionary forces.

Why wait for others to rescue you? Only the weak will allow themselves to be passive. What if they can't be rescued? Of course, this is a game, they will definitely wait. If they can't wait, as long as enough people are eliminated, the remaining 100 people will also advance.

But Su Su didn't want to wait.

When [Go but No Return] seized control, Su Su finally found his answer. He would not leave his fate to an expeditionary force he had never met, nor would he listen to the arrangements of a player who had repeatedly harmed him.

He has to solve the Zerg attack from the root by himself.

After being tricked by the centipede shield bug last time, he had been secretly taking lessons these days, and his understanding of the insect race was no longer limited to giant cosmic bugs.

He knew about the existence of the queen worm, and also knew that every Zerg army was silently controlled by a queen worm. She would choose a planet rich in energy to build a nest, and absorb the energy of this planet, giving birth to offspring continuously until the energy of the planet where the nest was built was exhausted.

At this time, the queen worm will start migrating with her people, looking for new planets to parasitize.

What they were facing was probably a large army of Zerg migrating towards their defense line, and the queen must be hiding somewhere behind the team.

As long as the queen worm in the team is killed, the insect army led by this queen worm will collapse.

"Su Su, come back. If you are not satisfied with the task I assigned to you, there is no need to get angry in this way." [Come but No Return] was still persuading him using the control channel.

But Su Su knew that he was not persuading, he was just using persuasion to misinterpret his own departure as a disturbance. He was afraid that he would affect other players and even incite others to leave with him.

However, his worries were apparently unnecessary, as no other players followed Su Su's "suicide" behavior, and Su Su himself did not plan to find any help this time.

But he didn't like the saying "there is always a way out", and he felt the need to correct it: "I'm not being mad, and there's nothing wrong with your arrangement. I just have a different philosophy from you."

"I was just thinking, if we are a real expeditionary force, are we running so far just to defend our base and survive? It would be better for us to just hide on the planet."

"We are not yet a true expeditionary force. Whether in terms of equipment or strength, we are far inferior..." [Go but never return] tried to seize back the rhythm.

But Su Su did not give him a chance to interrupt, and continued on his own: "The reason why our expeditionary force drove spaceships, traveled thousands of miles, stationed in the vast space, and established supply points one after another is not to passively defend when the Zerg rushes. It is to seize the initiative in the war with the Zerg."

"This is the meaning of the expedition. We are not the shield guarding the Imperial Star. That is the job of the space station. We are the expeditionary force, the spear and sharp blade of the Imperial Star piercing the Zerg. We should not be afraid of strong enemies, nor do we need to weigh life and death. All we have to do is attack. Attack is the best defense."

Su Su immediately cut off the communication between the two parties. Because he cut off the command communication, his points were deducted again. His points were almost at the bottom at this time, with only a pitiful three points left.

But no one laughed at his recklessness anymore.

There was silence in the conference room. The driver who had just questioned the White Scale Shark was silent now.

Those words just now will move anyone who has participated in the expedition to some extent. The expeditionary force has always been controversial because of its huge military expenditures, and the annual losses and casualties are also a considerable amount. There are even some calls to abolish the expeditionary force from time to time.

But White Scale Shark understands them. He understands their thinking of using defense as offense, their courage to face difficulties head-on, and their determination to never regret even if they die.

He understood it all, so he made the choice that an expeditionary soldier should make.

Everyone was watching the live broadcast of the White-scaled Shark. The silver arc of light drawn by the swift in the dark universe was so dazzling. No one noticed that the man on the main seat, who always had a cold face, raised his mouth slightly at this moment, and the expression in his eyes could even be called proud.