Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Tang Bai and Xie Ruheng walked out of the lounge. There they saw Gu Tunan, Mo Zheng, and Bai Li surrounding the NPCs like evil forces without any fear in the hall, while Lu En even said “go away” impatiently to Gu Tunan.
The atmosphere between the two sides was tense and on the verge of breaking out.
After seeing Tang Bai come out, Rong Yao hurriedly explained to Tang Bai as if he had seen a savior: “Didn’t the Adventure just come to pick up Qiu Yan, Lu Lu and You Xiang? The Adventure also gave our spaceship a lot of energy, but it was too much. So, the NPCs on the Adventure seem to have become angry.”
“The two NPCs on the Adventure are extremely powerful. They tied up all the players on the ship, and now they are running back to our ship to ask for the return of the energy crystal.”
“It turns out we don’t know what they said to the NPCs on our spaceship. But Lu En and the others also want to return it!”
Tang Bai slowly raised a question mark.
Similar situations also occurred on various spaceships, especially some NPCs on the spacecraft whose energy was stolen by players. When they found out, they exploded instantly – labor and management worked hard and frugally to save so much energy. You guys are too nice to give these prodigal things for nothing in one go!
No more sailing! Go home!!!
What was even worse was that all the powerful players on the spaceship had been transferred away by the system. The players on the spaceship were all average in strength and were easily dealt with by the rampaging NPC. The players were weak, pitiful and helpless, with no right to speak, and they could only watch the NPCs getting angry and overturning the heaven and earth.
As for the players who earnestly said that the energy star was really at that coordinate, the reaction of the NPCs was always: I believe you!
The attitude of the NPCs on the Discovery was relatively mild. To be more precise, the NPCs had a good attitude towards Tang Bai.
Lu En walked up to Tang Bai, chewing a cigarette between his thin lips, and said to Tang Bai with a strong smell of tobacco: “The captain and I want to go back.”
His tone was not a notification but had a hint of discussion tone.
So Tang Bai advised: “Our mission is to find the energy star.”
The rising white mist shrouded his face, and the expression on the sharp face was unclear. Lu En narrowed his eyes slightly, not looking at Tang Bai. Instead, he looked out the window at the bright starry sky.
He held the cigarette between his fingers and took a long drag: “There is not much energy on the spacecraft. If we encounter a few more meteorite swarms, the energy consumption rate will quickly reach the warning level. Even if we want to go back, we will not be able to go back.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Bai’s firm reply came out: “No.”
Lu En turned his head and looked at Tang Bai dejectedly.
The glimmer of stars outside the window fell in Tang Bai’s eyes, like shining gems.
So energetic.
Lu En thought listlessly.
“We will find the energy star, we will complete the mission given to us by the Federation, we will become heroes of the Federation, and we will go home in glory under the spotlight…”
Lu En’s vision began to become blurry again, and he turned his head to look at the scenery of the universe, but it was more like simply being in a daze.
Tang Bai looked at Lu En, who was silent. Then he suddenly said: “Senior Lu En wants to go back so much. He probably has something to say to someone.”
Lu En, who was wandering in his mind, was stunned for a moment, and he slowly turned his head, looking straight at Tang Bai.
“Senior, you must be very sorry that you can’t be with that person.”
No one had mentioned the existence of that person for a long time.
It had been so long that Lu En almost forgot about that person.
But every time he thought he was going to forget, as long as any tiny memory was triggered, countless moments of getting along with each other came back like an ocean.
He could clearly remember every sweetness in his memories, as well as his heart-wrenching reluctance after separation.
Pain that even tobacco could not numb.
Lu En put down the cigarette in his mouth. He was much taller than Tang Bai. Without the smoke, the sharpness of his face suddenly appeared. His tight thin lips were slightly opened. He said coldly: “Kang Pengze told you.?”
Tang Bai shook his head.
He just suddenly remembered that when Rong Yao told the story about his love affair, Lu En shook his head and looked like Gu Tunan when he raised the cup and drank it in one gulp.
“If senior discovers the energy star, he will definitely be rewarded by the federation, and he will be able to appear in front of that person with a new look and tell him the words buried in his heart.”
Lu En looked down at Tang Bai condescendingly, “What do you know.”
Tang Bai looked at him without hesitation and said seriously: “I only know that if you don’t say something, you will regret it for the rest of your life.”
The fingers holding the cigarette twitched imperceptibly for a moment.
“The coordinates of the energy star are at 367-37-245 in the Y galaxy.” Tang Bai’s tone and expression were sincere, so sincere that no one could question it.
“Senior, I can’t explain why I know the coordinates of the energy star, but please believe me, the energy star is really there.”
“And he is also there. He is waiting for the arrival of senior.”
When the motionless Lu En heard these last words, his heart suddenly throbbed again. Lu En closed his eyes. During the countless days and nights he was numbed by tobacco, he often felt that his life was being wasted away in the same unchanging life.
Like a dead fish floating in stagnant water.
Unchanged.
People of whatever class they were originally were destined to be the same in this class and in this life. No, maybe they could become worse.
When setting foot on the Discovery, the captain asked him why he wanted to enter the Discovery, whether it was for the future of mankind or for the material rewards of the Federation.
He said, neither.
It was for one person.
He wanted to seize the opportunity for upward mobility, but he was disappointed again and again, and his hope was worn away bit by bit.
It seemed easier and more practical to flow downward.
“Senior?”
Lu En opened his eyes. The cigarette in his fingers had burned out, which seemed to indicate that the days of self-paralysis were over.
Facing Tang Bai’s bright eyes, Lu En seemed to see himself when he first entered the Discovery.
“Did you get to know these coordinates from the God of the Universe?”
Looking at the confused Tang Bai, Lu En chuckled softly.
He had thought these new people were crazy.
But now, he suddenly wanted to go crazy with these people.
Lu En threw away the cigarette in his hand and looked out the window at the starry sky. His eyes, which had always been lackluster, glowed with unprecedented brilliance.
“Okay.” He spoke in a jokingly casual manner, but at the same time he was inexplicably serious: “Just go to the place you said.”
“Ding – NPC Lu En’s favorability for you is 3.” The system prompt rang in Tang Bai’s mind.
[666666, this is the first time I have seen someone who can persuade an NPC not to return home with words.]
[Other groups have beaten the NPC to pieces. I want to tell them this peaceful solution!]
Tang Bai let out a long sigh, and suddenly heard another mission announcement: “New mission: persuade Lu En!”
“NPC Lu En has a very good impression of you! Your words have a certain influence on him! NPC on the Adventure is not willing. If you want to return home, please persuade Lu En to drive the Adventure to the Energy Star!”
Tang Bai read the mission details, then made a cheering gesture to Lu En, and turned around to leave beyond the expectations of the mission issuer.
There was no attempt to convince Lu En while the iron was hot!
“Ding – players please pay attention to the mission deadline. This mission needs to be completed before the Adventure returns! The mission will not be completed if it exceeds the deadline!” The mission publisher was anxious.
Tang Bai turned a deaf ear and walked to the lounge. He closed the door and turned off the live broadcast. Then he said to himself in the air: “You should be able to hear me.”
“Don’t you think your plan has failed? In addition to Lu En, there are many NPCs planning to return. It will take a lot of time and energy for you to stop them.”
“Is it necessary to implement such a plan?”
The rest room was quiet. Only Tang Bai was confident and calm. The voice said: “In that case, you might as well listen to my plan.”
After a while, the system prompt sounded in Tang Bai’s mind: “What are your plans?”
Sure enough, he could communicate with external leaders!
Tang Bai puffed up his chest, “Then we need to exchange information first.”
Half an hour later, Tang Bai walked out of the lounge with his hands in his pockets. He found Xie Ruheng and pulled Xie Ruheng to a secluded corner, and then he and Xie Ruheng turned off the live broadcast.
They often did this kind of thing, and the barrage was not surprised.
Xie Ruheng also thought wrong like Tang Bai did last time. He was about to do something above the neck when he suddenly heard Tang Bai say softly: “Look, our baby.”
Xie Ruheng said: “???” You can get pregnant in the game by a kiss?
Tang Bai showed Xie Ruheng the mecha pet egg in his pocket. It was a dark metal egg, the size of an adult’s fist, exactly the same as the mechanical vine egg that Xie Ruheng had hatched for a long time.
“How did it appear in the game? And turned into a mecha egg?” Xie Ruheng was shocked.
“Good question!” Tang Bai patted Xie Ruheng on the shoulder, “Thanks to you always carrying the egg with you. After this game got contaminated by the virus, once it starts, you can no longer add variables and can only make use of the existing conditions. But after bringing the mecha egg with you, the egg was also scanned in by the system!”
“The import principle is the same as that of the Zerg virus. Both of them can be digitized, and after being scanned in, they need energy feeding to hatch, it is egg-shaped without energy. That virus will eat anything. Our egg is picky, so we can only give it energy crystals to make it grow.”
Tang Bai explained: “The emergence of the Zerg virus is very likely a product of the Empire’s bioinformatics. The Federation’s research in this area is weaker than that of the Empire. Grandpa was also worried about this before. Later, when he and I studied the mecha pet egg, he got new inspiration.”
“To study bioinformatics infection, we should instead light up a technology on our original technology tree that is similar to but different from bioinformatics infection, bioinformatics and mechanization.”
“The virus released by the empire has infected the entire game system. Our current technologies cannot overcome this technical problem. After the game system is infected, forcibly terminating the game may cause all students to be infected, so it is better to try to fight the virus with poison.”
“We can also put a bug in it,” Tang Bai touched the sleeping mechanical vine: “After hatching this guy, let it drag the Zerg into the black hole.”
Tang Bai patted the mecha egg, and his gentle tone revealed a chilling father’s urging: “Like this it can be considered as a contribution to the Federation. It ate all the energy crystals from the Cheng family, and now it’s time for it to work hard!”
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