Chapter 24 Thanks to You, Brothers!

“Thanks to you brothers, otherwise we would have been in trouble!”

After resolving the issue with the escaped hidden Zerg, the two starships flew side-by-side, conveniently communicating over the public channel, mentioning how that hidden Zerg had ambushed several players in a row to escape.

The more they talked, the more terrifying it seemed.

“Are you sure there’s only one hidden Zerg?” Mandison and the others were still shaken.

“No, there’s more, but A-Chen and I took down several. They moved together; this one… it slipped through.”

Mingmei and Mu Chen simply flew the Subo near the two starships. Mingmei recounted the earlier events to Mandison and the others.

“My god, so many players in that large starship are gone?”

Mandison and the others gasped at Mingmei’s description.

“Yeah, a tenth of the players are gone.”

Mingmei remembered what Mu Chen said about uniting, so she took the opportunity to maximize the pressure, making everyone clearly aware of their current situation.

“The ratio of Zerg to humans is one to one, but how big is a human? How big is a Zerg? It’s much easier for them to kill any of us than for us to kill a Zerg.” Mingmei revealed the truth. “Otherwise, why is there an extra score bonus for humans killing Zerg?”

After she said this, the public channel fell silent for a moment.

“So, what do we do now…”

Lu Xiaoyao’s question naturally led to the fact that everyone needed to unite.

“In the first half, we were the Zerg, but if it’s as I just said, why were we being chased so miserably?”

As Mingmei said this, someone present picked up on it.

“Because they were united.”

Thinking back to the first half, those veterans who played as humans always moved in groups.

They, on the other hand, were mostly alone when being chased, and then they would hurriedly run away when they encountered a bunch of starships or mecha.

Even in this round, as Lu Xiaoyao and the others said, the Zerg were once again in groups.

In terms of unity, these newbies were no match for the veterans.

“Ah, then let’s unite too.”

The player who said this didn’t think too much, but after saying it, he felt like he said the wrong thing.

What after uniting?

There would always be someone in charge, right?

As for who would be in charge…

Before that person could even struggle, Mu Chen spoke, “Are there any command majors among you?”

Although everyone could fight, there were indeed specialized majors for this in military academies.

“I… I’m from the combat command department.”

At this moment, Sun Yunzhong raised his hand. Lu Xiaoyao and the others all turned their attention to him. Sun Yunzhong was a little embarrassed and said, “But I don’t have much practical experience.”

“Hey! The way you say that makes it sound like we have any practical experience.”

Hu Yue and Lu Xiaoyao had a good impression of Sun Yunzhong. Although the young man looked quite cute and was sometimes shy, he was very serious when doing things, and he didn’t drag his feet when discovering problems and seeking solutions, nor did he act coy or lose face.

The two of them took the lead in cheering him on: “That’s right, you’re a professional anyway, what are you afraid of? At worst, everyone can just use mecha to fight directly later.”

“Then let’s give it a try.”

At this time, Mu Chen also affirmed what Lu Xiaoyao and the others said, “You’re the only command major here, it wouldn’t hurt to try.”

After Mu Chen said this, Mingmei looked at Mu Chen in surprise, feeling that he seemed to be paying a lot of attention to this Sun Yunzhong today.

“Do you know him?”

Mingmei conveniently turned off the microphone on the public channel and asked him about it.

“Yeah, I didn’t recognize him at first, but then I noticed him paying attention to me, and I remembered.”

“Who is he?”

“His mother, Mu Yun, is from the same generation as me. A member of the Mu family’s side branch. He should have gone back with his mother during the family reunion at the end of the year.”

“Wow~ your nephew?” Mingmei raised her eyebrows, “I didn’t expect you to be such a senior?”

“Aren’t you the same? Such a big nephew.”

…

“Huh… it seems the bigshots have turned off their microphones.” After Mu Chen made the suggestion, everyone gradually agreed to let Sun Yunzhong give it a try, but it was at this time that they accidentally discovered that Mingmei’s side had cut off the microphone.

“Could it be…” Lu Xiaoyao suddenly grinned, revealing an extremely wretched giggle. Hu Yue couldn’t help but cough a few times to remind her to pay attention to her image.

“Ahem, there are people here, pay attention. Even if you’re looking forward to them doing unspeakable things, you should restrain yourself a bit, hey!”

“Yueyue, you should restrain yourself too…”

Looking at Hu Yue’s straightforward words, Li Yuan felt that she was no less restrained than Lu Xiaoyao. The surrounding people all laughed dryly.

Everyone: Although I’m also quite gossipy, I won’t say it.

Sun Yunzhong silently reminded, “They just turned off the microphone, they can still hear us…”

“They’re not dead either.” Before Sun Yunzhong could finish speaking, Mingmei had already turned the microphone back on, “It’s already at this time, and you’re still thinking about irrelevant things?”

“What time?”

Only Lu Xiaoyao was embarrassed enough to ask this question.

The others couldn’t help but look at Lu Xiaoyao, wondering in their hearts: Is this guy missing a string in her brain?

“There are a dozen Zerg ahead, didn’t you notice?”

Mu Chen’s words instantly made everyone shudder, and Sun Yunzhong immediately went to the command position on the starship and looked at the star chart.

The aura on his body had changed.

The docile and harmless little lamb had now turned into a fierce beast guarding its territory, ready to tear apart the enemies invading its territory.

The onlookers were amazed by this change, but because of this, Sun Yunzhong’s subsequent words made people involuntarily feel convinced.

…

“Thirteen Zerg 50 kilometers ahead, three Black Armored Beetles are in the rear of the team, and there are 9 Pseudo-Mantis Zerg for attacking and fighting.”

Sun Yunzhong quickly made a judgment through the images transmitted by the mecha: “There is also one behind the Black Armored Beetles whose identity cannot be determined for the time being.”

“That must be a very important Zerg.”

The others immediately made this judgment after hearing Sun Yunzhong’s words.

“Could it be a Thousand-Eyed Worm?”

“Even if it’s not a Thousand-Eyed Worm, it’s a high-level and special type of Zerg.”

“So, I need one of us who has a mecha with armor-piercing rounds and is good at stealth to go around to the back for a sneak attack. Who among you has one?”

Although Mu Chen volunteered, he was rejected by Sun Yunzhong.

Because he wasn’t in the starship, Mu Chen didn’t even see Sun Yunzhong’s disdainful look.

Mu Chen’s Subo, which was as bright as a light bulb in the dark, was definitely not suitable for Sun Yunzhong’s needs.

Wouldn’t that have the same effect as a delinquent going to the street with “Don’t move! I’m going to do bad things” written all over his face?

Even though Mu Chen emphasized that his mecha had more than one armor-piercing round.

“Although I am good at stealth, the armor-piercing rounds on my mecha were used up earlier.” Hu Yue raised her hand, she immediately understood what the other party wanted to do.

“I’m also good at it.”

At this time, the voice came from the starship next door.

Mandison from the starship next door raised his hand to indicate that he could do it, “And I still have several armor-piercing rounds on my mecha.”

“Then, please go around to the back for a sneak attack when we are fighting head-on later, at least to see what kind of Zerg is surrounded by the Black Armored Beetles.”

After speaking, Sun Yunzhong began to arrange the others, the command was quite satisfactory, but in the end, he lacked the opening to encourage everyone and said: “Many of you currently have either no scores or not high scores, now is the time to earn scores.

As long as everyone cooperates well, it is not impossible to continue scoring later!

Think about it, a Zerg is worth seven points, according to the output contribution of the attack, although it seems that each person who takes action does not get many points, but if you fight a few more times, you are not afraid of not having points?!”

The scores that have appeared in the game several times have gradually made people realize the importance of this score, so when a group of people heard Sun Yunzhong “draw a big cake” for everyone, they were also very excited when they mentioned this score.

“That’s right, there are still points! I almost forgot, it’s very embarrassing that my score is still zero now!”

“Who isn’t? I just killed a player in the first half and got one point.”

“I have two points in total.”

Listening to this group of people talking about their scores, Mingmei was stunned to find that her 200+ points and the generally single-digit scores, and the slightly better twenty or thirty points, seemed particularly abrupt.

“By the way, Meimei, how are your and bigshot’s scores?”

The key is that Lu Xiaoyao asked this question so coincidentally.

Mingmei: “…”

Seeing Mingmei’s silence, Lu Xiaoyao thought of her own death in the previous round due to being “accidentally injured” by her teammates. At this time, she naturally wanted to care about Mingmei, who played the Black Armored Beetle in the previous round.

Without her “super combat power,” Mingmei and the others must have been miserable in the last round, right?

Thinking about it, Lu Xiaoyao sighed: “Ah, I don’t blame you, I understand.”

Mingmei: ??

What do you understand?

And Hu Yue and the others were almost laughing to death at Lu Xiaoyao’s ignorant appearance!

In the previous round, Mingmei led the three of them out of the encirclement, blasting a lot of mecha and starships along the way.

Although they didn’t defend to the end, they firmly believed that Mingmei’s score must be very high.

“I think it’s better for you not to know.” Hu Yue took a step forward and patted Lu Xiaoyao on the shoulder, then sighed, and directly put the confused Lu Xiaoyao in her arms and was about to walk out.

Sun Yunzhong had already arranged the respective divisions of labor, she should take Lu Xiaoyao to work hard~

Talk less and do more!

Everyone’s enthusiasm was quickly mobilized at this moment, and everyone was listening to Sun Yunzhong’s words in an orderly manner. Mingmei noticed a satisfied smile on Mu Chen’s mouth.

“Are you optimistic about this nephew of yours?”

“Yes, he has a good mother, and his upbringing is not bad.”

Mu Chen and Mingmei turned off the microphone again and told Mingmei about what happened in those years when he first got a new body and grew up in this world.

His nominal father had died in battle before he even appeared, that is, Mei Qiu’s former friend Mu Feize, the one who also died in the Battle of Sigma Fortress.

He was brought back to the Mu family by the leader of the Mu family, that is, Mu Feize’s mother, Granny Mu, since he was a child, but that old lady was not an old woman who had nothing to do every day and took care of her “grandson.”

She still had many things to do.

Her husband died early, and her most beloved youngest son also died in his prime. The other children were all outside fighting for their own careers, so she guarded the entire Mu family alone.

The Mu family’s position in Hua Lan Star was not low, and there were many things to do every day. Granny Mu would not put all her attention on Mu Chen.

When Granny Mu was not at home, she entrusted one of the side branches that had always supported her as the head of the family to take care of her, so Mu Chen was taken care of by that cousin who was nearly thirty years older than him for a period of time since he was a child.

“That person is Sun Yunzhong’s mother?”

“Yes.” When Mu Chen mentioned Sun Yunzhong’s mother, his tone was full of gratitude and nostalgia, “A-jie’s husband was an uxorilocal son-in-law. They all said that Sun Yunzhong’s father wanted to become an uxorilocal son-in-law in order to marry A-jie.” (uxorilocal: husband lives with wife's family)

“It’s just… less than a year after they got married, he died in an accident while doing business outside. A-jie had just given birth to Xiao Yunduo not long ago.”

Speaking, Mu Chen even thought of Sun Yunzhong’s nickname.

“Ah~” Mingmei sighed regretfully when she heard this, it was very sad to hear.

“After that, A-jie lived with Xiao Yunduo in the Mu family for two or three years before moving out with him, and the child’s surname was changed back to her husband’s surname. Later…”

Mu Chen thought for a while and said, “Later, A-jie didn’t appear much anymore. She lived quietly with Xiao Yunduo, until she came back with Sun Yunzhong during the New Year this year.

A-jie later told her grandmother that she was actually very happy in this life.”

After saying that, Mu Chen couldn’t help but sigh.

Time is such a torturous thing. People’s lives are clearly so long, but those short few years are repeatedly pulled in the long life, pulling and pulling, until all the beauty of the past is pulled into their own end of death before giving up.

In Mu Chen’s memory, that A-jie still had a bit of baby fat on her face, but compared to now, she could be described as haggard.

However, just like what he said, A-jie’s mental state was very good, her tone of voice and the way she treated people were still the same as before.

And her son performed very well.

“That’s good.”

Mingmei smiled slightly, but reached out and took Mu Chen’s hand.

Mu Chen was stunned, and saw Mingmei turn her head and said, “It’s good if your A-jie thinks so, no one can experience other people’s emotions for them.”

“I know.”

Mu Chen reached out and took Mingmei’s hand in return, holding her hand tightly, and suddenly said, “I will never leave you.”

“Really?” Mingmei was not sleepy when she said here, “Didn’t you disappear first in the last round?”

Mu Chen: “…”