"Very chewy and delicious."

Mingmei and Mu Chen sat there, watching Feng Li devour two servings of grilled octopus tentacles by herself. They exchanged a glance, both relieved.

Just as Mu Chen had guessed, the underground city managers weren't necessarily united. Look at Feng Li, eating those octopus tentacles without the slightest hesitation.

"Yes, it's really good."

Mingmei nodded, holding her tea, then looked at Olai, who was beside her, playing with two insect cores like walnuts. For a moment, she was at a loss for words.

She wasn't good at talking and didn't have much to say.

Besides, although these two weren't exactly dissatisfied with their gifts, they didn't seem particularly happy either.

"The reason I had Olai invite you here today is..." Feng Li wiped the sauce from the corner of her mouth and finally got to the point, "Help me find out who is colluding with the outer insects and disrupting the order of the Outer Star Sea."

"Are you sure it's the insect race?"

Mu Chen's eyes flickered, sensitive to the "outer insects" Feng Li mentioned.

"Yes, I sent someone to investigate, but they were killed halfway." Speaking of this, Feng Li's gaze fell on Mu Chen, and now Mingmei and Mu Chen seemed to understand something.

Mu Chen: "..."

Mingmei: "..."

That person was probably the fighter Mu Chen killed in the arena. It was the mission Mu Chen's character had accepted.

That person was clearly exposed, which led to his death.

"Do you have any clues?"

Mingmei and the others were also investigating this matter, but they didn't have many leads. Lu Xiaoyao and the others were also investigating along Zhen Hu's line, but the process wasn't going smoothly either.

The neighbor related to Zhen Hu that they investigated earlier had suddenly disappeared when Lu Gui and Lu Xiaoyao continued their investigation. He was nowhere to be found, dead or alive, and there had been no news.

Either he was silenced or he had received the news and hid.

Either way, it showed the terrible strength of the person behind it.

"Just those few information peddlers colluding with the insect race." Feng Li tapped the armrest of her wheelchair and looked at Mingmei, "I posted that task earlier. You took it, right?"

"Yes, I transferred the task to my classmate." Mingmei didn't expect that this task was actually posted by Feng Li, "But the list is clearly incomplete."

Mingmei remembered that there were more than just these information peddlers who were executed back then.

"But, that's all I know at this point in time." Feng Li suddenly reminded Mingmei that this was a game, a game based on real-world events. Based on this point in time, none of them were omniscient.

"How long... until that incident happened?"

Mingmei remembered the battle in the Guangyu Star Region. At that time, they were catching the insect race in the game, and they didn't know the specific details of what happened outside. By the time they found out, the battle was nearing its end, a pyrrhic victory bought with the sacrifice of a planet and millions of lives.

In those days, the sound of the death knell in the school square echoed through the campus at fixed times.

This incident not only made the Outer Star Sea hated by the Third Army, but also became an indelible pain for the Empire.

"One month."

Feng Li looked at Mingmei and Mu Chen and asked, "Can you find out?"

"Can I ask, so far, in reality, have you found anything?"

"Yes." After Feng Li finished speaking, she immediately added, "But I won't tell you."

Mingmei: "..."

Well, it seemed they still had to rely on their own efforts.

"So, you asked us here today just to repeat the task you posted online face to face?" Besides the opening "family reunion" segment, the middle part was about eating grilled octopus tentacles, and finally she asked them for help.

It was fine to ask for help, but she wasn't even willing to reveal a single clue.

"Are you close to these managers?" Seeing that the other party wasn't willing to give anything away, Mingmei began to take it seriously and asked indirectly.

"Not particularly close, but there are no conflicts."

Feng Li fiddled with her golden hair, which was like a fishtail. Her words were truly unhelpful and didn't provide any useful information.

Mingmei glanced silently at Mu Chen beside her. Mu Chen received Mingmei's signal. He had been silently observing earlier without saying anything. At this moment, he put down his teacup and asked, "The tea in this cup is good. Can we buy it anywhere in the Outer Star Sea? Can we pack some to take away later?"

"Sure, since it's in the game, I don't mind." Hearing Mu Chen say this, Feng Li smiled and called out to Olai, asking him to go upstairs and bring down some of the tea she had hidden.

Olai responded and left. Mu Chen watched him go upstairs, and then he heard Feng Li say, "Speak. What do you want to do by sending Olai away?"

"Who killed Olai?"

As soon as Mu Chen asked this, Mingmei saw the veins on the back of Feng Li's hand, which was holding the armrest, suddenly bulge. Mingmei didn't dare to look closely at the expression on her face. Mingmei knew that Mu Chen had stepped on the other party's sore spot because of the murderous aura that flashed past in that instant.

"No one." After a while, Feng Li took a deep breath. "His genetic defect."

"Is that so?" As if he wouldn't stop until he had infuriated her, Mu Chen asked again, "Was it already beyond saving?"

"What else?"

Feng Li's eyes were sharp, and her gaze towards Mu Chen carried an unspeakable rage. Mingmei could see that besides the genetic problem, Olai's, ah, the real Olai's death probably had other secrets.

"With the current level of medical technology, plus the connections you should have outside, there should be a way to treat Olai's problem, right?"

Feng Li had mentioned her relationship with Mingmei's parents earlier. Mu Chen didn't believe that Feng Li wouldn't have asked for help if something had really gone wrong, given how much she valued Olai.

"What delayed Olai's treatment? Do you know?" Mu Chen's question caused a look of stunned surprise to flash across Feng Li's angry face. Then, she heard Mu Chen ask, "Don't you want revenge?"

"Revenge?"

"Yes, those insect races dragged your last refuge into the war. I think Olai's failure to receive timely treatment was probably related to these people, right?"

Feng Li: "..."

"We are allies. You don't have many people you can trust, but since we have joined you, some things can always be entrusted to us, and those things can be left to us to do. Olai, just needs to stay by your side."

When Mu Chen spoke, Mingmei sat beside him and clearly felt the gentle mental energy emanating from Mu Chen's body spreading towards her.

However, what was strange was that the other party's mental energy seemed to be even stronger than Mu Chen's. While resisting Mu Chen's mental energy, her purple eyes suddenly shone with a soft light as she looked at Mu Chen.

"That's right, since you choose to be loyal, you should show me your loyalty."