"Cough cough cough."
A series of coughs interrupted Cen Yu and Huo Shen's conversation. They turned to look at the woman crawling out of the slime. She was an Omega woman, and they instinctively covered their noses as soon as they got close.
But perhaps realizing that her behavior was impolite, she stepped back slightly and put her hand down, thanking Cen Yu and Huo Shen for their help again.
Cen Yu's pheromones also surged due to the burst of mental energy. He could sense a faint woody scent in the air. Huo Shen, who was next to him, took out a potent inhibitor from the side of his combat pants and threw a vial to Cen Yu.
"?" The simulator has pheromone suppressants??
Cen Yu was full of questions, but still opened the potent inhibitor and gave himself an injection.
A moment later, their pheromones subsided, and the rescued Omega woman revealed the origin of the monster.
"...My teammates have temporarily left to search for supplies." The woman pointed to the broadcasting station they had first seen. "Are you from the search and rescue team?"
She had already keenly noticed the difference in Cen Yu's and Huo Shen's attire.
"Yes," Huo Shen replied.
When facing these NPCs, he became taciturn again.
"...Fortunately," the woman said thankfully.
“Then we should be saved soon,” she said. “There aren’t many people left in the Third Space. We were delayed because we didn’t receive the evacuation information at the time.”
According to the simulator's settings, the scene where Cen Yu and Huo Shen arrive at Planet Nott takes place after the official retreat. Star Capital receives another distress call from the survivors, so the Empire sends a two-person team to investigate.
In reality, after the first Zerg invasion of Nott, the Empire first sent a legion to eliminate the Zerg and take away the remaining survivors of Nott. Some people were unwilling to evacuate, believing that the Zerg would not return after leaving... Unexpectedly, the Zerg brought even more Zerg, which led to the "last rescue" operation.
It was also the time Huo Shen mentioned that a survivor escaped from the spaceport.
Although the simulator's story is based on a real-world setting, changes are made to the dungeon missions to allow trainees to try more combat methods. For example, the monsters they just saw are likely the result of these dungeon modifications.
"Didn't you see any news of a retreat?" Cen Yu hadn't put down his weapon.
The system notified them that they had found survivors, which meant that the people in front of them were most likely human, but Cen Yu still had some doubts.
"Where were you at the time? Didn't you hear the retreat signal?"
The woman looked bewildered, and Cen Yu knew this was beyond the scope of the instance's design.
"Where is your companion?" Cen Yu asked again.
The woman spoke again at this moment, "They are temporarily leaving the third space."
“My communicator broke, so I don’t know where they went after that.” She said, a look of relief spreading across her face. “That thing appeared out of nowhere…”
Cen Yu knew what happened next: the monster suddenly appeared and devoured the woman, then kept sending signals through her communicator.
She was originally in a broadcasting room, so it's not surprising that there was that recording... Before arriving at the third space, Cen Yu had already noticed that there was something wrong with the recording. It was mechanically repetitive, and even the noisy background noise was exactly the same. The person on the other end of the communicator didn't seem to answer, mechanically repeating similar segments.
Even though he had made preparations in advance, when Cen Yu actually saw the monster in the broadcasting room, he still admired the system's imagination for being able to create such a disgusting thing.
“That thing is intelligent and can understand human speech,” Huo Shen suddenly said. “The Empire has never recorded such a mutant.”
He looked at the woman. "So it appeared out of nowhere."
The woman nodded.
Cen Yu wanted to probe for more information, but at that moment the woman began to repeat what she had said at the beginning. Cen Yu knew that this meant that what they were asking was beyond the system's settings.
The main quest "Find the Survivors" has been completed.
Next, it was time to kill the Zerg and space pirates... Cen Yu glanced at his task list again and found that killing the Zerg was also checked, which seemed to be telling them that the monster they had just killed was a Zerg.
"...There are such strange-looking things among the Zerg?" Cen Yu looked back at the puddle on the ground, somewhat incredulous.
Huo Shen looked at them without speaking for a long time before finally saying, "Our next mission is to find the space pirates."
He started rambling again, "Could there be space pirates in these underground spaces? Have they infiltrated the survivors?"
Cen Yu wasn't surprised. Given the background setting that the insectoids had suddenly appeared, it was perfectly understandable that the space pirates were trapped in the underground space... He picked up his weapon and prepared to continue searching in the third space when the woman hurriedly said, "Wait, I'll go with you."
"Aren't you waiting for your companions?" Cen Yu asked.
The woman hesitated for a moment, then said, "They...may not come back."
After all, under normal circumstances, since the monster got her communicator and kept sending those messages, her companions would either have been killed when they returned, or they would have disappeared on the way to search for supplies.
"Lead the way." Huo Shen gestured for the woman to walk ahead. "We're here to find survivors. Where else in the underground space are there survivors? You lead the way."
...
"Do you think she's a space pirate?" Cen Yu asked directly as he and Huo Shen were walking slightly behind.
"Hmm." Huo Shen looked at the person in front of him. "Just a suspicion."
Cen Yu was still pondering the second talent that Huo Shen had mentioned earlier... He glanced at Huo Shen walking beside him, "What is the second talent?"
"Exclusively for Alphas?"
"I knew the Imperial Military Academy was a waste of space." Huo Shen first mocked the Imperial Military Academy, then looked at Cen Yu, "Are you a junior this year?"
Cen Yu wasn't surprised that the other party knew his grade. After all, anyone who knew a little about the faction-based competition among third-year students at the Imperial Military Academy was aware of it, so Sleeping Bro's deduction was perfectly reasonable.
"The old fogies think it's a secret," Huo Shen chuckled sarcastically. "After all, not everyone who graduates from the Imperial Military Academy ends up choosing the military..."
"There are quite a few people among the space pirates who defected after graduating from the Imperial Military Academy."
“But ultimately, it’s not some big secret.” Huo Shen shrugged. “How do you think the Legion fought against the Zerg?”
“You should have seen those Ohmu in the teaching mode; their power is unimaginable to humans.” He pointed to himself. “With mechs, humans can’t really fight against high-level insects.”
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