Chapter 104 Are You Trying to Be Our Boss?

"How did your brother… provoke a girl like that?"

Mingmei felt like she had discovered something amazing, and asked Lu Xiaoyao in a private chat, who was currently engaged in a verbal battle with Jian Yunhe.

"She's delusional~ Humph!" Lu Xiaoyao felt suffocated just thinking about it.

Wasn't it just that her brother accompanied their grandfather to visit various families during the winter vacation to see the elders in their circle?

Although her grandfather had specially held a birthday party for her brother earlier, introducing him to the big shots as the heir of the Lu family, that time was only a one-sided, distant meeting. In private, her brother still had to move around with her to let everyone see his strength.

But—

Lu Xiaoyao and Lu Gui never expected Jian Yunhe to become so entangled with him.

Speaking of which, wasn't it just that the financial big shot Jian made a joke with her grandfather?

Her brother didn't take it seriously, so why did the other party?

Lu Xiaoyao's character couldn't finish complaining about this kind of thing in a short time, so she told Mingmei that they would talk about it later. She hadn't taught Jian Yunhe a lesson yet!

"I'm not like someone who doesn't know their place!" Lu Xiaoyao continued to argue with Jian Yunhe, "Everything has an order. Why do you think you're right to steal kills?"

"Did that insect have your family's name on it? If they ran away and you didn't stop them, what's there to say?" Jian Yunhe wasn't at all intimidated, and naturally had something to retort to Lu Xiaoyao's words.

However, Hu Yue wasn't happy with her rebuttal, and said, "What do you mean we didn't stop them? If you hadn't suddenly shot armor-piercing rounds over without saying a word, would that have happened? Luckily our classmate blocked it, otherwise we would have been the ones to suffer! At that time, the insect hadn't escaped yet, right? You couldn't wait to attack with mecha nearby, completely disregarding whether we would be injured or killed. Is that polite?"

"Is it our fault you were not skilled enough to kill the black armored insect and wouldn't let others attack? Are we supposed to wait until you all die before we take action?"

Besides Jian Yunhe, someone else spoke up, one of the boys in the black mecha who had killed the black armored insect.

"Are you cursing us? Spit, spit, spit, spit!" Lu Xiaoyao was instantly enraged when she heard the talk of dying. How could they say such things about her teammates?

"We didn't mean that, but I think since you said it's about strength, then you should have the discernment to assess the situation, right? Mistaking a favorable situation for a disadvantage and attacking…"

Sun Yunzhong also spoke slowly at this time, his tone calm, but he emphasized the word "mistaking" at the end.

Strong people aren't blind, right?

After Sun Yunzhong finished speaking, there was a rustling sound of discussion in the nearby communication channel, but it was interrupted by Jian Yunhe's words.

Mingmei became curious about the other party's identity, seeing how she was the one in charge.

"Who is the Jian family member arguing with Lu Xiaoyao?"

Mingmei whispered to Mu Chen in a private chat.

"The Jian family is one of the old noble families of the empire. The heads of the family have been the Minister of Finance for generations."

"Whoa!"

Mingmei widened her eyes. Minister of Finance!

And it sounded like the position was hereditary?

"Is it hereditary?"

"No, it's based on strength." Mu Chen didn't really know how to explain this point either; he only understood part of it.

The Minister of Finance of the empire was definitely not a hereditary position, but it was very strange that people from the Jian family had always held this position.

"Judging from her tone, she should be a direct descendant of the Jian family."

"Oh~" Mingmei nodded slightly. A noble family with a long history, even though her argument with Lu Xiaoyao seemed brainless, if she was really that brainless, how could she get the entire team to listen to her?

"We were rash just now, but if you value an insect so much, why don't you follow us? We'll make it up to you with another one later."

Mingmei felt that there was a trap in Jian Yunhe's words. Did this mean they would become followers?

"What are you implying?"

Lu Xiaoyao frowned fiercely. Before anyone else could say anything, she asked first, "Are you asking us to be your lackeys?!"

"Is there a problem with that? It's obvious that you have a different perspective if you're wasting time here for an insect. With this time spent arguing with us about a broken insect, you might have killed many more insects."

Jian Yunhe's words directly mocked them for being incompetent, "leeching" here for an insect, while she was being "kind" enough to give them one.

The premise was that they had to be obedient.

"Who are you looking down on?!"

Lu Xiaoyao was so angry that if her mecha wasn't just for show, she would have rushed up and beat her!

Damn it!

"With so many of us, our skills are naturally not small, a mere insect…"

"Wait a minute."

Mingmei stopped Lu Xiaoyao. If she let her continue, she would probably end up saying, "Oh, you also said it's just a mere insect, so what are you arguing about?"

No matter how they argued about this issue, they would always be at a disadvantage.

Therefore, the others didn't speak, but Lu Xiaoyao spoke too quickly, so Mingmei had to speak up.

"This isn't just about one insect." Mingmei first shifted the focus of their argument away from the black armored insect.

"In the game, the insect race represents points. Everyone fights for points, and it's indeed a bit unpleasant to have points stolen. But—"

Mingmei said, changing the subject, "Outside the game, the number of insects killed does represent merit. On the battlefield, soldiers inevitably fight hard to kill the insect race and earn merit."

When Mingmei spoke of this matter, the people present couldn't help but nod. Although they had been told since entering the school that they were protecting their country and defending the people, who wouldn't want to kill the insect race, earn merit, receive high bonuses, and become admired by millions?

"However, if someone disregards the lives of their companions in order to kill the insect race and earn merit, stepping on their companions' corpses to rise to the top, who among you would be willing to be their teammate?"

Mingmei directly amplified the issue, asking, "If one day you encounter the insect race on the battlefield, would you disregard your comrades fighting the insect race in order to kill them, and directly activate a weapon with great destructive power, destroying your comrades along with the insects?"

Mingmei's words were severe, and Jian Yunhe's face immediately changed. She didn't even need to look at the expressions of the people around her, but everyone did realize the problem.

"Or, if the insect is not surrounded by comrades, but by ordinary citizens, would you abandon those citizens in order to kill the insect?"

"I wouldn't!"

Jian Yunhe's voice was loud, but she was still relatively clear-headed, and immediately retorted, "In a real battle, everyone follows the same command. How could such contradictory situations arise? How could the guns behind the teammates be pointed at the teammates when they are sent to fight the insect race?!"

"Also, ordinary citizens will be evacuated at the first sign of an insect race war. The situation you described would only occur if the citizens don't cooperate and court death themselves, or if the insect race sends advance troops to sneak attack."

"Sneak attacking insect race teams should be eliminated at all costs to minimize casualties. We will naturally save the citizens we can, but if we can't… we can only eliminate these insects with the least amount of sacrifice!"

"Games are just games, and they reflect reality. Are you looking down on us too much?"