However, the fact that the other party had a good personality was not a reason to say how impressive Qiao Xiyu was.

"I heard that Qiao Xiyu is supposed to be the most powerful person in the Federation in recent years. He's even a student of the Federation President."

"His Excellency Gustav's personally recognized student?" Mei Qiu asked Hu Mingli, puzzled.

He hadn't heard any news about the Federation President taking on a student.

"I don't know about that, but that's the word on the street," Hu Mingli said. Mei Qiu responded blandly, "It seems you've been pretty idle lately, with time to listen to gossip."

"Mei Qiu!"

Stung by the remark, Hu Mingli glared at him.

This guy seemed incapable of saying anything nice, from way back then until now.

"I'm not like you, only listening to things that benefit you. Back when you were making a name for yourself, there were people in the Federation comparing you to that colonel who supposedly perished with the Zerg Queen. Wasn't it because you couldn't stand Durant saying you were the number one person to kill the Zerg Queen?"

Feeling like the other party couldn't say anything nice, Hu Mingli's sarcastic remarks were also quite venomous.

"Really?" Mei Qiu raised an eyebrow. "As for you, you must be happy to hear people cursing me, right?"

"Of course. When someone curses you, I feel like not everyone in this world is blind."

This mutual insult didn't damage their friendship, although there wasn't much friendship to begin with ╮(╯_╰)╭

"I'm still saying, I'm entrusting my younger sister to you to look after."

After insulting each other for a while, Mei Qiu finally returned to the main topic.

Similarly, Hu Mingli nodded and said, "I will, without breaking the rules."

"That's enough."

Mei Qiu chuckled softly. Their conversation ended on a peaceful note this time.

After ending his conversation with Hu Mingli, Mei Qiu continued to contact another person.

"Ming Song, I feel like there's something you haven't told me?"

…

"Oh my god, it was so dangerous before?"

After resting, Mingmei and her group didn't stay in one place for too long. Instead, they actively searched for their remaining teammates.

Sure enough, they soon encountered another starship with the same configuration and specifications as the one Lu Xiaoyao and the others had originally.

After Mingmei and Mu Chen confirmed that everything was normal on the starship, their group accepted the invitation and boarded.

This starship was mainly filled with students from the Second and Third Military Academies. There were even two people who had interacted with Mingmei and the others during the Eight Schools Exchange, which made it easier for them to integrate.

Listening to their previous experiences, they marveled at the dangerous situations they had encountered and admired their strength.

"If we had encountered such a situation, it's hard to say how many would have been left..."

When one student said this, the people around him nodded almost imperceptibly.

This was the truth, and they didn't feel ashamed to admit it.

One of them looked at Mu Chen and Mingmei and asked curiously, "Can you tell us more about the hidden Zerg?"

"Yeah, that's too scary. Infiltrating everyone's team without anyone knowing, it's impossible to guard against."

Compared to being attacked and killed by the Zerg openly, they were more afraid of this silent disappearance, which was chilling to think about.

"First of all, on this starship, I don't know if you noticed, there are no internal intrusion alerts."

Since entering the game, Mu Chen had gone to the central control room and looked through all the starship functions. Mingmei also remembered that Mu Chen was standing there when she entered the game, and he was looking at these things.

Regarding the alarm, he had noticed at the time that there was no internal intrusion alert message.

"Huh? Is there?"

Seeing the others looking blank, Mu Chen knew that they had obviously not noticed.

"In the past, before the hidden Zerg were discovered, all starships had detection systems for small creatures that could invade the starship during the chaos. Not to mention that after the hidden Zerg appeared, the detection systems on all starships in active service in the legion were upgraded, especially the mental wave checks for the Zerg, which included everything within the legion base, starships, and mecha."

After Mu Chen finished speaking, he watched the pilot of this starship check his starship as he said.

"Damn, it's really not there."

"Probably they were afraid that directly removing the separate function of checking for Zerg mental waves would more easily arouse suspicion, so they simply removed the entire block. This way, at most everyone would think that the game developers might have left it out to save trouble."

After Mu Chen finished speaking, the expressions on everyone's faces worsened. They hadn't noticed such a big loophole.

Seeing that everyone was in low spirits, Lu Xiaoyao quickly comforted them:

"Hey, this is really not easy to find. Besides, like the boss said, even if we saw it, we wouldn't normally think about it this way, right?"

But Mu Chen still added insult to injury: "Isn't it basic to check the strange starship or mecha you're about to pilot or control yourself?"

Everyone: 0.0?

"Then... then you saw it and thought there was a problem, or... or why did you think there was a problem here later? Maybe the game design was simplified?" Someone had to admit the gap between people, but it was rare for someone to admit it and still be willing to humbly ask for advice.

Mu Chen looked at this baby-faced boy with glasses and curly hair and said:

"Because when I was piloting the mecha, I found that this function was also missing from my mecha. My mecha is my personal mecha in reality. Since I didn't make any changes when uploading and synchronizing the data, it can only be said that the game deliberately filtered out this function.

Once is a coincidence, but twice, could it be unintentional?"

When it came to their personal mecha, there were also several people present whose mecha were also personal, but they still hadn't noticed.

"Moreover, this game is for military training. The functions and operational difficulty will only be more difficult than in reality. They won't simplify anything just to save trouble, unless there's another purpose for this simplification."

After listening to Mu Chen, everyone felt even more defeated.

"I see." The curly-haired boy nodded to himself, then said, "Then how did you distinguish that the mecha was not a person? Just because of the unusually enthusiastic attitude?"

When the boy finished speaking, he even wanted to ask if it was more enthusiastic than they had greeted Lu Xiaoyao and the others when they boarded the starship?

"No, it's just that my and Mingmei’s mental strength is very strong, and we are more sensitive to mental fluctuations like the Zerg."

After Mu Chen finished speaking, Mingmei, who received everyone's attention, had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Since she used her mental strength to stimulate the fluctuations on the Zerg Queen's crystal nucleus carried by Jin Yi, causing irreversible and terrible effects on the Zerg, she also suffered a little backlash at the time.

But after she recovered, Mingmei realized that she was very sensitive to the Zerg's mental fluctuations.

After Mingmei finished speaking, the people around her fell silent again...