Chapter 100: Game over

"Why did you go this way?" The captain sat beside Tang Bai, looking ahead at the meteorite belt.

Although Tang Bai's excellent piloting skills are well documented, even the most experienced pilot can take a death-defying risk when travelling through the meteorite belt.

"Because it's not just dangerous for us here, it's dangerous for the insects as well." Tang Bai's gaze was firm as he piloted the ship headlong into the meteorite laden passage.

This time there were more meteorites than the previous swarms he had travelled through, and the neural link communicated the ship's feelings in the universe to him so perfectly that he didn't need to pay attention to the data, his body could sense the gravitational entanglement of each meteorite and make a subconscious judgement.

" Tang Bai, that insectoid gave birth to nearly ten thousand juvenile insectoids, Xie Ruhang held back the giant insectoid, the other small insectoids were too numerous for us to stop them all,there are about a hundred insectoids approaching your position ......" Mo Zheng's anxious voice rang in his ears.

Tang Bai's ship has only four NPCs on board, and in order to increase its speed and arm the other four ships, Discovery has removed most of its power cannons and other weaponry, leaving little resistance in the event of an encounter with an insect swarm.

"Don't worry, I'm driving into the meteorite belt, the insects won't be able to catch up." Tang Bai pulled the boost lever to its maximum and flipped a streak of ten fingers over the fine hundreds of buttons.

Discovery speeds through the dangerous meteorite belt in a thrilling and exciting airship show.

The captain sat on the sidelines, intently watching the stellar detectors for any new energy stars that appeared.

Then he saw it.

At the end of the vast darkness is an azure star with a serene and mysterious shimmer, but unfortunately a faint reddish-brown patch blocks the beautiful light of the star.

The old captain pressed the launch button of the Quantum Sphere and four of them flew towards the planet, spreading their light in all directions and creating a dreamy nebula of light.

The old captain and the three other NPCs stared at the constantly changing data, and the moment the data broke the standard amount, their eyes lit up in unison, as if a dusty jewel had been wiped of the topmost dust.

"That's the Energy Star!!!"

"We've found it! We've found it!!!"

"It's really there! We've got energy! We can go home!"

Yu Hui hugged Lu En and kept shouting with excitement, while the other two older NPCs were also wetting their eyes.

As everyone was reveling in their joy, Tang Bai suddenly said, "What's up ahead?"

As the ship approached, it saw a group of juvenile insects gathered in front of the star, eggs left here in advance by the giant insects, numbering up to a thousand, and to reach the energy star, they would have to break through these insects.

What to do?

The only energy resources left on the ship are only enough for the energy cannons to fire four or five times, and the defence systems are not sure if they can sustain the ship through hard ......

"Don't worry." Tang Bai's shoulder was suddenly tapped by the old captain, the old man said in a hard voice, "Lu En and I will be piloting the mechs, so just go ahead and let us do the rest."

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Ministry of the Army.

The group of uniformed generals sat solemnly in the conference room, staring mutely at the live feed on the light screen, and when the NPC named Kang Pengze offered to help Tang Bai clear the way, Lieutenant General Mo's face suddenly tightened and he could barely keep his composure.

Gu Mian, sitting next to Lieutenant General Mo, noticed his friend's discomfort, but he understood his concern at the moment, as both his nephew and father were in the game.

His nephew is Mo Zheng and his father is Admiral Mo, one of the five admirals of the Federation, Old Kang, the consciousness gatherer of the NPCs in the game.

The Federation's current level of technology does not allow for a high degree of anthropomorphism of npc's and has simply taken the tricky way out -

Real people playing npc's.

The participation in this role play was initiated by Mo Lao and the level of secrecy was so high that even Mo Zheng did not know that one of the NPCs was his grandfather.

When a real person's consciousness is imported into the game, his memory is modified. Admiral Mo in the game has forgotten his true identity, and he is prepared to die when he chooses to confront the insects head-on.

Live feeds of both battles were dropped into the military conference room, with Lieutenant General Mo staring intently at Discovery's perilous situation one moment and his eyes bloodshot at the giant insect battlefield the next.

The giant insects wrapped in the mechanical vines kept struggling, and the vines, which were on the verge of their limits, finally broke off one by one.

Five minutes short of twenty minutes.

The mechanical vine has done its job to the limit.

Next it was his turn to buy Tang Bai some last-minute time.

Xie Ruhang piloted the mech and leapt forward, the brilliant sword light splitting the giant insect's newly freed wings in half in an instant.

The furious insect swung its claws and struck the Xie Ruhang mech in the chest.

Xie Ruhang flew off like a kite with a broken string, his ribs breaking instantly under the blow, and he coughed up blood mixed with pieces of his internal organs.

The insect shook violently, trying to fling the mech from its body. Xie Ruhang half-kneeled on the insect shell, and with just one blow, the damage to the Tang Bai-altered mech instantly shot up to 90%.

"Drip - Free combat mode switch successful!"

The phoenix eyes flashed with a hint of ruthlessness, some people would sit back and wait for death in times of life and death, but others would instead be inspired to bring out the most insane side of their heart.

The pink mech suddenly leapt high above the giant insect carcass again, and the lightsabers clutched in both hands once again coalesced into a mighty sword light!

With a swing of the sword, the sword light turned into a sea of light raging in the sky, the small insects swept away were instantly split in half, and the giant insects' newly grown wings broke off again!

On the other side, the Discovery in the light screen rampaged towards the swarm, layer after layer of the shield was scrapped and eventually the range of the shield was reduced to that of the cockpit.

Lu En was the first to rush out, grabbing one of the insects that had slumped onto the hatch and kept gnawing on it, throwing this one hard towards the insects that were gradually flying over, smashing a gap in the line of insects!

The old captain brought out a huge shield and used it to block the weakest hatch, while the other two took care of the left and right sides of the shield and Lu En took care of the rest outside the hatch.

In the heat of the battle, no insects lasted more than two strokes against Lu En, whose overwhelming strength was impressive despite the fact that the larvae were not strong in their own right.

Even with the desperate efforts of the npc's to stop them, there were still fish that had slipped through the net and were flying over the cabs to gnaw on them.

The four NPCs piloted the mechs and fought the insects to the death, but there were so many insects that a hole was eventually chewed through the cockpit for the insects to pass through. The NPCs could fight to the death to stop the insects from approaching, but they could not stop the loss of oxygen in the cockpit.

While the four NPCs are wearing space combat mechs, Tang Bai, who is piloting, is not wearing any protective clothing that can be adapted to space conditions.

He wears a driving helmet covered in nerve links and his straight body is not tall and strong, it could even be described as thin.

Tang Bai stands out against a backdrop of insects fragmenting behind him.

Bright red blood dripped from the pilot's helmet and snaked down the snow-white neck, a sign of the body's boiling blood in the space environment.

No one could see Tang Bai's face, hidden by his driving helmet, but everyone could see the extremely 'steady' hands, firmly gripping the gear lever and pulling it to its fullest extent with uncanny calmness.

The Discovery he controls is like a brilliant starlight, tearing through the darkness and rushing towards the azure star.

Everything is framed there, blood staining the console of the cockpit, the slender body collapsing onto the stage, the giant insectoid that broke free of its mechanical vines fixed in the moment of opening its mouthparts.

"Ding-- Discovery has successfully reached the Energy Star! Game over!" The system beep sounded in the ears of countless people, like a heavenly music.

Before the generals present could react from the joyful atmosphere, they heard a chaotic clatter from Lt. Gen. Mo's place, the door of the conference room was banged shut, and Mr. Gu would helplessly look at the back of his friend's rude back, and got up and walked out after him.

Mrs. Gu was standing with Papa Tang Mama Tang, whose voice was trembling with tears, "Tang Tang is bleeding a lot in the game, will he be alright in reality?"

Papa Tang put his arm around Mama Tang's shoulders and kept whispering comforting words to his wife.

Mrs. Gu stands alone beside the loving couple, a man with a faint greenish-black colour under his eyes and red, haggard-looking eyelids.

When Mr. Gu would arrive outside the examination hall, he would see his wife's exhausted appearance.

It was the first time he had seen his wife in such a bad state, and she was dressed in such a disorderly manner that she was not even buttoned up, and her clothes had many folds and wrinkles, a far cry from Mrs. Gu's usual dignified and neat dress.

He had expected his wife to be different from all the other omega's, strong and independent, calm and collected, but he never thought he would see such a side of her.

Seeing Gu Mian's arrival, Li Songyun spoke in a hoarse voice, "You're here, I saw Xiao Nan on air in a bad state, he was injured when he fought with the virus hatchling ......"

The sound of the play pods opening one after another rang out inside the examination hall, and the teachers of the military school were keeping order, telling the parents outside the hall who wanted to rush in to stay calm.

Mr. Gu will clearly be the type of parent who doesn't need to be calmed down by the teacher, he can even speak calmly to his wife about something else: "Your buttons are wrong, the first one is missing and the next one is all wrong."

Li Songyun's lips twitched as he looked at his husband's calm demeanour with incomprehension, "Shouldn't you be the first to be concerned about Xiao Nan's safety now?"

"As I've told you before, apart from being devoured directly by the giant insects, the initial fear that we would surely fall into brain death if we died in the game was solved by the people at the research institute."

"As long as you don't get devoured by giant bugs in the game, there is theoretically little risk of instant brain death, and while there is some probability of brain death in other ways of dying in the game, those odds aren't as high as 100 percent."

"The group of students from the Dream died in the self-destruct mode of the ship, they were unable to get out of the game because of the virus, their nervous systems were invaded to varying degrees and one child unfortunately became a vegetable, thankfully the other four were not in that bad of a condition."

Mr. Gu will analyse: " Xiao Nan did not die in the game, even if the virus had affected the game system, the most he would be affected by would be a period of weakness in reality, and since I already know he will be safe, I naturally won't worry about the unlikely."

"Xiao Nan will be fine, and if he is, he fought to the end and died to protect us all, we should be proud of him." Mr. Gu will conclude.

"...... You are so sensible it amazes me." Li Songyun said softly, those eyes looking at Gu Mian uncomfortably, as if they were accusing him of something.

The entrance to the examination room was opened and Gu Mian did not communicate with his wife again as he entered the room with the crowd.

Lt Gen Mo, who watched the entire fight between the brother and wife: "......"

When Lieutenant General Mo looked at Li Songyun, who was still standing in silence, he couldn't help but say, "Don't mind what Old Gu just said, he's just like that, in fact, he was also worried about Xiao Nan, and he didn't feel relieved until the people from the research institute said it was okay."

Li Songyun said nothing as he shook his head gently and entered the examination room with Lieutenant General Mo.