Chapter 131

Chapter 131

The rosy picture Zhang Bei had painted still had some effect. For the moment, the others forgot about the accident as well and headed out of the Laboratory.

Before long, a group of people in suits came in carrying professional equipment.

“Thank you, Mr. Zhang, for your contribution to the nation!”

Zhang Bei waved a hand. “I’ll leave this place to you, then. I’m off!”

Since the preparations for the new facility were complete, the new project could begin as well.

“System, same as always!”

[Blueprint meets requirements. Site confirmed. Emotional Value deducted. Workers are being arranged to enter the site. Estimated construction time: twelve hours!]

Zhang Bei looked at the Emotional Value deducted by the System and silently sighed.

But the moment he thought about how it could open tomorrow, his mood instantly brightened.

He drove his accident-scarred car all the way back to the amusement park.

It happened to be lunchtime. Zhang Bei’s steps even faltered slightly.

Across the entire amusement park, folding tables had already been set up one after another, and on each table sat a human head.

People held spoons in one hand, eating brain matter, while the other hand grabbed a bloodied hand and took the occasional bite.

The style was certainly… distinctive.

After eating lunch in the restaurant, Zhang Bei leaned back in his chair to rest.

Meanwhile, under Professor Yao’s influence, Professor Wei had also discovered the fun.

The two old men, whose combined ages added up to over a hundred, spent their free time squatting in front of the Giant Swing, waiting for tourists to finish their rides.

The joyful virus of the cult festival had thoroughly spread to both old men.

Happy times were always brief. A full day’s business came to an end under Professor Wei’s reluctant gaze.

Before anyone realized it, it was already early the next morning. The employees and Qingqing, who had received the news in advance, were now standing in front of the new facility.

“This ball is the new facility?”

Zhang Bei nodded. The new facility looked similar to the sphere from Space Roam, except it had been enlarged countless times.

“Anyone who got an experience card, go in and take a seat. It can hold three hundred people, so don’t be shy!”

The employees looked at the cards in their hands with bitter smiles.

Qingqing clutched her wallet and nearly burst into tears.

After they walked inside the sphere, they saw chairs placed one after another. This time, even the seat belts had been removed.

Instead, the employees let out sighs of relief. No seat belts was good. That meant it was truly safe!

Zhang Bei only smiled. “The experience lasts half an hour. Put on the glasses, and it will begin.”

Qingqing found a seat in the middle and sat down, fastening the glasses over her face.

A ring-shaped device on the chair soon pressed against her head.

The view inside the glasses gradually shifted, and three cards appeared before her.

[Ghost Village Survival]

[Midnight Marriage Fate]

[1999]

Qingqing studied them carefully and soon made her choice.

The third one!

The first two didn’t look like anything proper at first glance!

Her vision changed again. When it finally settled, she had arrived in a desolate wilderness.

All around her stood all kinds of armored suits, each one ready and waiting.

Before Qingqing could recover, a voice suddenly rang in her ear.

“No. 179, what are you standing around for? Put on your armor and prepare to move out!”

Only then did Qingqing lower her head. At her feet lay a complicated suit of armor.

The instant the thought of putting it on appeared in her mind, the figure she controlled skillfully donned the armor.

Soon, the voice from before sounded again.

“This battle concerns the survival of the Milky Way. You are Huaxia’s finest warriors. Move out!”

Qingqing’s mind was still spinning. Her vision blurred, and a triangular spaceship revealed itself before her.
The mecha’s thrusters kicked in, and everyone boarded the spacecraft.

Only then did Qingqing finally react.

Holy shit!

This was virtual reality!

If she looked closely, some details were still a little blurry, but it was clear enough to prove that this was absolutely beyond anything current technology could achieve!

Driven by curiosity, Qingqing carefully examined the mecha she was wearing.

A gun hung across her chest, and a massive blade was strapped to her back.

When she looked at the silhouettes around her, they were all equipped the same way.

“New recruit?”

The voice beside her made Qingqing turn her head. “Yes!”

The figure who had spoken removed his visor. He was a man with a scar across his face.

“When we go down, stick with me. The battlefield isn’t a place you can just muddle through!”

Qingqing nodded, but a moment later, she was stunned.

This thing could actually hold conversations?

While she was still thinking about the feasibility of a virtual reality game, the loudspeaker inside the spacecraft crackled to life.

“We have arrived at the far side of the Moon. Good luck, soldiers!”

The veteran snapped his visor back down and picked up his gun with one hand. “Follow me!”

The figure Qingqing controlled quickly hurried after him.

The moment they stepped off the spacecraft, a scene of utter carnage filled her vision.

Countless pieces of shattered mecha were scattered across the ground, and bullets and shells flew everywhere.

The things fighting the mecha were insects, and even the smallest stood more than three meters tall!

The largest one was floating in the sky, locked in battle with a space battleship.

The veteran patted Qingqing on the shoulder. “Don’t just stand there. We’re responsible for Sector E3. It’s not that dangerous over there.”

“What’s that?”

The veteran looked up. A trace of sorrow flashed through his eyes.

“Fuxi. In a few days, it’ll be time for her to retire too.”

As the two of them advanced, the veteran answered every question she asked.

Qingqing soon understood why he had sounded so mournful when he mentioned Fuxi.

An entire space battleship required more than three thousand soldiers to operate. Before this, there had been Nüwa, Erlang Shen, and Qitian Dasheng.

But without exception, they had all been destroyed by the insects.

That was right. In the veteran’s mouth, “retirement” meant destruction!

Once a battleship reached its limit, it would self-destruct directly, using the explosion to wear down the insects’ combat strength.

Before she knew it, the two of them had arrived at the front line.

Qingqing was just about to raise her gun and take aim when the veteran pressed it down with one hand.

“Use the blade. Only switch to the gun when you don’t have any strength left!”

Qingqing nodded, drew the massive blade, and followed behind the veteran.

With one slash, a three-meter-tall insect was cut cleanly in half.

Green blood splattered all over her body.

Just as Qingqing was still fighting the urge to gag, a voice suddenly rang in her ear.

“Seventy-Two Earthly Demons, all units, charge!”

Nearly a hundred red battle armors instantly blasted flames from their thrusters and plunged into the swarm. As explosions boomed one after another,

the densely packed insects were immediately cleared from a wide area.

“Damn it, you brats beat us to it!”

As the voice fell, another group of golden battle armors flew into the sky.

“Thirty-Six Celestial Stars, get in there!”

Exactly thirty-six explosions rang out, and another area was cleared.

Watching the scene before her, Qingqing’s eyes reddened before she even realized it.

All of a sudden, a shout rang beside her ear.

“You dumb kid, move!”

The moment the voice fell, a black battle armor shoved Qingqing aside. The veteran’s figure was pierced through by an insect’s sharp claw.

“Kid, when the battle’s over, bring me some good liquor!”

As his voice fell, the battle armor erupted with powerful thrust and charged straight into the swarm.

“Boom!”