Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“Why should we take this road?” The captain sat next to Tang Bai and looked at the meteorite belt ahead.
Although Tang Bai’s excellent spaceship piloting skills were obvious to all, no matter how experienced the spaceship pilot was, traveling through the meteorite belt was a death threat.
“Because this place is not only dangerous for us, but also for the Zerg.” Tang Bai’s eyes were firm as he drove the spaceship and plunged into the passage filled with meteorites.
There were more meteorites this time than the meteorite belt he had traveled through before. The neural link perfectly conveyed to him the feeling of the spacecraft in the universe. He did not need to pay attention to the data, his body could sense the gravitational entanglement of each meteorite and make a knee-jerk judgment.
“Tang Bai, that Zerg gave birth to nearly ten thousand baby Zergs. Xie Ruheng is holding back the giant Zerg. There were too many other small Zergs, and we couldn’t stop them all. Currently, there are probably more than a hundred Zergs attacking you. The location is close…” Mo Zheng’s anxious voice sounded in his ears.
There were only four NPCs on Tang Bai’s spaceship, and in order to increase the speed and arm the other four spacecraft, they had dismantled most of Discovery’s energy cannons and other weapons and equipment. If it encountered the Zerg group, it would not have much ability to resist.
“Don’t worry, I drove into the meteorite belt, and the Zerg can’t catch up.” Tang Bai pulled the speed lever to the maximum, and his fingers flew over the hundreds of delicate buttons, creating afterimages.
The Discovery quickly shuttled through the dangerous meteorite belt, as if it was performing a thrilling and exciting spaceship show.
The captain sat aside, concentrating on observing whether there were new energy stars from the star detector.
Then he saw it.
At the end of the vast darkness, there was a blue star, which exuded a quiet and mysterious shimmer. Unfortunately, the faint reddish-brown spots blocked the beautiful light of this star.
The old captain pressed the launch button of the quantum balls, and the four quantum balls flew towards the planet. They were distributed in all directions of the planet, emitting slender and soft light, weaving a dreamy nebula-like light.
Countless data were displayed quickly. The old captain and the other three NPCs stared at the constantly changing data. The moment the data exceeded the standard amount, their eyes lit up in unison, as if a dusty jewelry had wiped clean the dust on top.
“That’s the energy star!!!”
“We found it! We found it!!”
“It’s really there! We have energy! We can go home!”
Yu Hui hugged Lu En and kept getting excited. The ground shouted, and the other two older NPCs also had wet eyes.
When everyone was immersed in joy, Tang Bai suddenly asked: “What’s in front of us?”
As the spacecraft approached, he saw a group of juvenile Zerg gathered in front of the star. Those were the giant Zerg that had been left here in advance. The number of eggs it laid was as high as a thousand. If they wanted to reach the energy star, they must break through the obstruction of these Zerg.
What to do?
The energy cannon with only enough energy resources left on the spacecraft could only be fired four or five times. He was not sure if the defense system could support the spacecraft from forcefully passing through…
“Don’t worry.” Tang Bai was suddenly tapped on the shoulder by the old captain. After taking a shot, the old man said in a strong voice: “Lun and I can fly mechas. Just go ahead and charge. Leave the rest to us.”
….
Military Department.
A group of generals in military uniforms sat solemnly in the conference room, silently watching the live broadcast on the light screen. When the NPC named Kang Pengze offered to help Tang Bai clear the obstacles, suddenly Lieutenant General Mo’s face tensed and he could hardly keep calm.
Gu Mian, who was sitting next to Lieutenant General Mo, noticed his friend’s gaffe, but he understood Lieutenant General Mo’s worries at this time, because Lieutenant General Mo’s son and father were both in the game.
His son was Mo Zheng, and his father was General Mo, one of the five generals of the Federation, who was also the consciousness behind Lao Kang of the NPC in the game.
The current technological level of the Federation was not yet able to achieve a high degree of anthropomorphism of NPCs, so it simply adopted a tricky method – real people played the NPCs.
Mr. Mo took the initiative to participate in the role play this time, and the confidentiality was very high. Even Mo Zheng didn’t know that an NPC was his grandfather.
When the consciousness of a real person was imported into the game, their memory would be modified. Admiral Mo in the game had forgotten his true identity. So, he chose to confront the Zerg head-on and was ready to die.
The live broadcasts of the two battles were broadcast in the military conference room. Lieutenant General Mo was staring at the danger of the Discovery for a while and looking at the battlefield of the giant Zerg with bloodshot eyes.
The giant Zerg wrapped in mechanical vines kept struggling, and the mechanical vines that were on the verge of reaching their limit finally broke apart one by one under the load.
Five minutes to go until twenty minutes.
The mechanical vines had reached their limit.
Next, it was his turn to buy the last time for Tang Bai.
Xie Ruheng piloted the mecha and jumped suddenly. The brilliant sword light split the giant Zerg’s newly freed wings in half in an instant.
The furious Zerg swung out its sharp claws and hit Xie Ruheng’s mecha in the chest.
Xie Ruheng flew out like a kite with a broken string. His ribs were instantly broken under the heavy blow, and Xie Ruheng coughed up blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.
The insect’s body shook violently, trying to throw away the mecha on it. Xie Ruheng half-knelt on the insect’s shell. With just one blow, the damage rate of the mecha modified by Tang Bai instantly increased to 90%.
“Dip – the switch to free combat mode was successful!”
A trace of ruthlessness flashed through his eyes. Some people would sit back and wait for death at the moment of life and death, but some people would be inspired to bring out the craziest side of their hearts.
The pink mecha suddenly jumped to a high place on the giant Zerg’s body, and the lightsaber held tightly in both hands once again condensed the powerful sword light!
With a sword swing, the sword light turned into a sea of light that filled the sky and raged. The small Zerg that was strafed was instantly split into two halves, and the newly grown wings of the giant Zerg broke again!
On the other side, the Discovery in the light screen rushed towards the insect swarm, and the protective screens were scrapped layer by layer. In the end, the scope of the protection system was only reduced to the scope of the cockpit.
Lu En was the first to rush out. He grabbed a Zerg that was lying on the hatch and kept eating. He threw the Zerg towards the Zerg that were gradually flying over, smashing out a gap in the Zerg team.
The old captain took out a huge shield and used it to block the weakest hatch. The other two people were responsible for blocking the left and right sides of the shield, and Lu En was responsible for other places outside the hatch.
In the fierce struggle, no Zerg could withstand two attacks from Lu En. Although these juvenile Zerg themselves were not strong, Lu En’s overwhelming strength still made people look at him.
The Zergs one after another were like rolling rivers. They were not powerful individually, but there were too many of them. Even with the desperate efforts of NPCs to block them, there were still fish that slipped through the net and were lying on the cockpit to gnaw at it quickly.
Four NPCs drove mechas and fought to the death with the Zerg, but there were too many Zerg, and a hole was eventually chewed out of the cockpit for the Zerg to pass through. The NPCs could fight to the death to prevent the Zerg from approaching, but they could not prevent the loss of oxygen in the cockpit.
The four NPCs were wearing space combat mechas, but Tang Bai in the driver seat did not wear any protective clothing that could adapt to the conditions of space.
He wore a driving helmet full of neural links, and his straight body was not tall and strong, and could even be described as thin.
Against the backdrop of the broken Zerg behind him, Tang Bai’s figure looked particularly thin.
Bright red blood flowed from the pilot’s helmet and snaked down the snow-white neck. It was a sign of the human body’s blood boiling in the space environment.
No one could clearly see Tang Bai’s face, which was obscured by the driving helmet, but everyone could see those extremely “steady” hands, firmly holding the gear lever, and calmly pulling the gear lever to the extreme – he controlled it. And under his hands, the Discovery was like a brilliant starlight, tearing through the darkness and rushing towards the blue star.
All the scenes were frozen, blood staining the console of the cab, the slender body falling on the table, and the giant Zerg breaking free from the mechanical vines was fixed at the moment when it opened its mouthparts.
“Ding – Discovery successfully arrived at the energy star! Game over!” The system prompt sounded in the ears of countless people, just like the sound of nature.
Before the generals present could react with a joyful atmosphere, they heard the messy noises made by Lieutenant General Mo. The door of the conference room was closed. Major General Gu helplessly looked at his friend’s rude back, and he also got up and walked out.
Parents were standing outside the examination room filled with game cabins at the Federal Military Academy. Mrs. Gu and Father Tang and Mother Tang stood together. Mother Tang’s voice was shaking violently, and she said with a strong cry: “Tangtang was bleeding in the game. There was a lot of blood, will he be okay in real life?”
Father Tang hugged Mother Tang’s shoulders and kept whispering to comfort his wife.
Mrs. Gu stood alone next to the loving couple. His eyes were lightly green and black, his eyelids were red and swollen, and he looked very haggard.
When Major General Gu rushed outside the examination room, what he saw was his wife’s exhausted appearance.
It was the first time that he had seen his wife in such a bad state. His clothes were in a mess. He hadn’t even buttoned them properly. There were also many wrinkles on his clothes, which was completely different from Mrs. Gu’s usual dignified and neat dressing style.
Major General Gu couldn’t help but frown. He originally thought that his wife would be different from other omegas, strong, independent, and calm in situations, but he didn’t expect to see such a side of his wife.
Seeing Gu Mian’s arrival, Li Songyun said in a hoarse voice: “You’re here. I saw Xiao Nan’s condition in the live broadcast was not good. He was injured while fighting the juvenile form of the virus…”
The sounds of game cabins being opened one after another were heard in the examination room. The teachers of the military school were maintaining order and asking parents outside the venue who wanted to rush in, to calm down.
Major General Gu was obviously the type of parent who did not need a teacher to soothe his emotions. He could even talk to his wife about other things in a calm tone: “You buttoned the wrong buttons, the first button was missed, and the next ones were buttoned wrong.”
Li Songyun’s lips trembled, and he looked at his husband’s calm expression incomprehensibly, “Shouldn’t you be concerned about Xiao Nan’s safety first?”
“I’ve told you before, in addition to being directly swallowed by the giant Zerg, in the first place, our worry that dying in the game would lead to brain death had already been solved by the people at the Research Institute.”
“As long as you are not devoured by giant Zerg in the game, the risk of immediate brain death is theoretically small. There are other ways to die in the game. There is a certain probability of brain death, but the probability is not as high as 100%.”
“The students on the Dream died in the self-destruct mode of the spacecraft. They were unable to leave the game because of the virus, and their nervous systems were invaded by viruses to varying degrees. Unfortunately, one child entered vegetative state. Fortunately, the condition of the other four children was not that bad.”
Major General Gu analyzed: “Xiao Nan did not die in the game. Even if the virus affects the game system, its biggest impact would not be felt much in reality. He would just be weak for a while. Since I already know that he will be safe, I naturally won’t worry about impossible things.”
“Xiao Nan will be fine. Even if something happens, he would have fought until the last moment and die to protect everyone. We should be proud of him.” Major General Gu concluded.
“…You really surprise me with your sanity.” Li Songyun said softly, but his eyes made Gu Mian feel uncomfortable, as if he was accusing him of something.
The passage into the examination room was opened. Gu Mian did not communicate with his wife anymore. He just entered the examination room with everyone.
Lieutenant General Mo, who had watched the entire quarrel between his brother and his wife: “…”
Lieutenant General Mo looked at Li Songyun, who was still standing silently, and couldn’t help but advise: “Don’t pay attention to what Lao Gu just said. He has that temperament, and he was actually very worried about Xiao Nan. He didn’t feel relieved until the people from the Research Institute said it was okay.”
Li Songyun didn’t say anything. He just shook his head slightly and entered the examination room with Lieutenant General Mo.
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