Chapter 37 Savior

"Sayer, are we really just leaving like this?"

Of the four who had just left the group, apart from one person acting alone, the other three were banding together.

Among them, the boy who had previously retorted Mu Chen was obviously the backbone of the three.

"Otherwise? Those few are clearly in a group. They conveniently saved us this time, but who knows if they'll just throw us three under the bus next time something happens?"

Sayer's petty mind interpreted the gentleman's intentions, and the other two felt that there was some truth to it.

When banding together, if something happened, the first thing to do was naturally to exclude the most uncooperative ones and make them scapegoats.

"I was thinking too simply."

The other person was a little embarrassed. Although they were grateful that Mu Chen had saved them, Sayer had previously mentioned to them privately that with Mu Chen's skills, they wouldn't have been in such a passive state if he had left in the beginning.

"Alright, let's leave here first. The direction the Zerg retreated was completely different from this side, and that person came from this direction as well, so this side is much safer than the others."

Sayer and the others had a very simple idea: find a hidden planet to rest and then—go hunting.

Catching some lone Zerg and working together to kill them was relatively safe.

They piloted their mechs and landed on a relatively remote, primitive planet, only to find that someone had arrived one step earlier.

"Who's there?"

The three vigilantly looked at something resembling an escape pod lying quietly not far from where they landed.

"Is anyone there?"

The three didn't immediately approach, but cautiously shouted.

"It looks like they escaped from something..."

The only female player among the three spoke, "Isn't that an escape pod from a starship?"

"Probably something very urgent happened, and they didn't even have time to change into a mech and could only escape through an escape pod."

Like their starship, it was also equipped with escape pods, but at that time, there were too many Zerg outside. If they passively ejected in an escape pod, they wouldn't even have a chance to fight back if they were intercepted midway.

Therefore, everyone who could fly out in a mech basically defaulted to using a mech.

Like this one, escaping to this place in an escape pod and remaining motionless, it was obvious that it had been severely damaged.

"Is anyone there?"

The three shouted again, and that was when the escape pod finally showed some movement, slowly opening from the inside, revealing a seemingly harmless young man sitting inside.

They clearly saw the dazed look that flashed across his face, and the look of joy in his eyes when he looked at their three mechs was something that no one could hide.

"You—you're here to save me?"

The other party waved excitedly at the three of them. After confirming that the surrounding environment was safe, the three of them got out of their mechs, stored them away, and walked up to the other party.

"Hello, we are Sayer, Ke Qi, and Qi Na from the Fifth Military Academy."

Sayer took the lead in introducing himself, and the young man opposite, who seemed to be slightly weaker, honestly introduced himself.

"I'm Qi Hai Kui, from the Second Military Academy."

Qi Hai Kui smiled shyly, and then, as if remembering something, asked eagerly, "By the way, did you, did you see our starship's distress signal?"

"Ah? What? Where is the starship's distress signal?"

The three were stunned at first, but then honestly shook their heads. They hadn't received any distress signals.

However, the three of them didn't speak directly. Instead, Qi Na took the lead in communicating with Qi Hai Kui, "Did something happen to your starship? A distress signal."

As she spoke, Qi Na also pointed to the escape pod behind Qi Hai Kui, the meaning was self-evident.

You're already in this situation, and you're still asking us?

After Qi Na finished speaking, she saw Qi Hai Kui's face turn pale, and then everyone saw a flash of horror in his eyes.

It seemed he had indeed encountered something terrible.

"Our, our starship was flying along fine, and then, then a group of very terrifying bugs appeared!" Qi Hai Kui's body couldn't help but tremble as he spoke, making the three of them look serious and worried.

"What kind of bugs are so scary?"

Suddenly, it seemed that an unknown and terrifying enemy had appeared, and the other party's description made them involuntarily feel a sense of fear towards the unknown.

This fear made them uneasy. They didn't want to encounter such a terrible existence next.

"I don't know, it just suddenly… the starship suffered heavy damage, we, many of us wanted to escape in escape pods, but things happened too fast…"

The horror in Qi Hai Kui's eyes couldn't be faked. As the three looked at each other, Qi Hai Kui silently lowered his head and retracted the strange light in his eyes.

He was indeed frightened on the starship just now.

However, the reason he was frightened wasn't the Zerg.

It was because he encountered Mu Chen and their mechs.

What was he, a Zerg, afraid of Zerg?

From the moment Mu Chen's mech approached their starship, Qi Hai Kui had a very bad premonition. The seniors traveling with him were excitedly saying that they would trick this "fool" who was piloting an S-class mech into coming up.

He didn't care what others thought, but the more he listened, the more frightened he became.

This is Mu Chen?!

Crap, could this guy have seen something and was deliberately testing them?!

And that was when a female voice suddenly spoke. Qi Hai Kui's strong desire to survive directly made him run.

As for the seniors, he had reminded them, but no one paid attention to him!

So, as soon as he ran out in the escape pod, the starship exploded into nothing in the blink of an eye.

This was the second time he had run away like this, he was familiar with the road. It's just that he was still maintaining a human body. Originally, he was still thinking about where to deceive people next. How great, someone actually delivered themselves to him.

"Then what do you plan to do next?"

Qi Na handed a handkerchief to the other party. Qi Hai Kui thanked her, took it, wiped his forehead, and said silently, "I was wondering if you could take me for a ride if possible, find a suitable starship or something so I can continue fighting."

"Eh? You don't have a mech?"

Qi Na was stunned. She didn't seem to see a place to store a mech on the other party's body.

"Ah, I ran too fast at the time, and my mech storage device accidentally fell off, otherwise I wouldn't be trapped in this capsule..." A look of annoyance flashed in Qi Hai Kui's eyes, as if it was really the case.

Zerg, where would he get a mech from?

"Then follow my mech later." Sayer expressed sympathy for Qi Hai Kui and said he would take him along, "There will be someone to take care of us along the way."

"Ah, that's great~ Thank you." Qi Hai Kui stared at the other party's face with a "touched" expression and said with a smile, "Thank you so much, student Sayer!"