I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

However, things are a bit complicated right now. Bronya and her team have explored many rooms and fought quite a few battles, so they should have used up a lot of ammunition. But at the same time, Ehaka is also wondering if the other side has prepared a large number of weapons. After all, in this game, each player can carry two different types of weapons, so their ammunition will naturally differ.

Regardless, Yuhaka sent the adult insects to test their firepower and assess the situation. In any case, she planned to deplete the enemy's ammunition before launching her own attack to see how the enemy fared.

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On their way to the laboratory, Bronya and her companions were attacked by adult insects. Seeing the emerging insects, Bronya instructed Ilulu to eliminate the alien creatures. With the scorching flames from Ilulu's homemade flamethrower, the alien creatures were ignited. The "Sweeping Attack" action card was used to eliminate the alien creatures. Soon, with Ilulu's attack, two adult insects were gone, and the other one chose to retreat.

After seeing that all the enemies had been wiped out, Ilulu looked at the adult insects that had been beaten to a pulp with a smug expression and said:

"What? There's basically no need to worry about those adult insects."

Bronya also reminded Ilulu of what she had said:

"Don't get too cocky. Those alien creatures are probably just used by Youyou's mom to deplete our ammunition. She'll probably be launching an attack soon."

Upon hearing Bronya's words, Ilulu's smug expression froze. Clearly, she hadn't expected that those alien creatures were actually sent by Yhaka to deplete their ammunition.

P.S.: My stomach is bloated and I feel terrible.

Volume 2 [Daily Life Arc - 1]: Chapter 1643 [Iruru: Self-Destruction?!]

"Then, what should we do?!"

Ilulu looked at Bronya with a panicked expression. In response to Ilulu's question, Bronya shrugged helplessly and spread her hands, saying:

"There's no other way. After all, it's an open conspiracy. Even if we don't fire, it's still difficult to escape from these alien creatures. It's a very risky situation."

Hearing Bronya's words, Ilulu was speechless. Then, as if remembering something, Ilulu looked at Bronya and said:

"By the way, Bronya, I don't think I saw you use many weapons just now? Did you run out of ammo? But I just saw you reload."

Bronya, without showing any emotion, explained to Ilulu about this:

"It's simple. I only have a revolver and a few homemade incendiary bombs. If I use all my weapons, ammunition, and supplies here, I'll run out of ammunition."

Hearing Bronya's words, Ilulu looked at Bronya with some confusion and said:

"Is that so? But I remember you said before, Bronya, that a person could carry two weapons. Didn't you get any new weapons?"

Regarding Ilulu's question, Bronya sighed slightly and looked at Ilulu with an expression as if she were looking at an idiot, saying:

"Have you forgotten? I was carrying the alien corpse with me before. The alien corpse is also considered heavy, which means I have to use another weapon slot to put it in, so I can't have a second weapon."

After hearing Bronya's explanation, Ilulu scratched her head with a puzzled expression and said:

"Eh? Is that so?"

Ilulu was also puzzled by Bronya's explanation, since Bronya had never told her these things, but Ilulu didn't care much.

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After Ilulu and Bronya reunited with the others, Yuki and the others were also gathering at the laboratory. After Bronya handed the alien creature's corpse to Yuki, Yuki began analyzing the alien creature's second weakness, which was its "movement mode." This weakness meant that alien creatures other than the Queen and Guardians would not destroy the gate. This was good news, as Bronya and the others could use the gate to isolate the adult insects and other types of alien creatures from Yhaka, allowing Yhaka to fight them.

This situation would make things much better for them, especially knowing that the adult insects cannot break through the door.

"Alright, we now have two homemade flamethrowers, and the alien creature has two weaknesses. Now we just need one last insect egg. If we can get the last weakness, our chances of winning will be much higher."

Upon hearing Bronya's words, Yuki and Yurin, who were standing nearby, looked at Bronya with puzzled expressions and said:

"Why bother looking for the final weakness, OO? Wouldn't it be better to just destroy the spaceship?"

Yu Lin, who was standing to the side, nodded and said:

"Yeah, why do we need to find the final weakness?"

Hearing what Yuki and Yurin said, Bronya almost forgot that Yuki and Yurin were players who had played this game before. Players who play this game at first will subconsciously regard alien creatures as mission objectives. After all, the goal of this board game is to complete their own objectives, not to eliminate all alien creatures.

However, after hearing Bronya's words, Yuki and Yurin roughly guessed what Bronya's mission objective might be, which was probably to eliminate the Queen of Insects.

As Yuki and Yurin thought about these things, they couldn't help but ponder something as well.

Bronya realized that her purpose was a bit too obvious, which made her feel uneasy, since this game was about cooperating while also hindering each other.

Regardless, Bronya shifted everyone's attention to dealing with the alien creatures. After all, weakening the alien creatures would make it easier to achieve their previous goals.

Although everyone has their own agenda, they are temporarily focusing their attacks on the alien creatures' nests. Once the nests are set on fire, a flame marker will be placed on them, and all the eggs will be destroyed. Naturally, there is no need to worry about larvae or anything like that emerging.

Larvae are a very troublesome thing. Although larvae only need a little damage to kill the opponent, the ammunition is also wasted too much damage. Basically, apart from soldiers, no player has the ability to attack multiple targets multiple times with one ammunition.

If you don't kill the larva, it will parasitize the player when they leave, which is disgusting in a way. This is something Bronya and the others hate, since each player can only be parasitized by one larva at most. If an extra larva appears, that player will die. Meanwhile, Yuhaka has an extra reptile.

While a single reptile may not seem like a problem, the issue lies in the fact that, according to the alien creature attack action cards, a reptile can suddenly evolve into a guard and launch a surprise attack on a player who has no cards in hand.

In a sense, the little guy who could have been easily killed suddenly turned into a muscular giant, making him seem difficult to deal with.

This is why Bronya and her companions kill reptiles and larvae whenever they see them. In any case, it's better to kill them sooner rather than later, rather than waiting for them to become guardian-level alien creatures.

Bronya and her companions went to attack the nest. Knowing its location, they headed straight for it, intending to set it on fire and completely destroy its functionality.

However, Ehaka won't let Bronya and her group destroy their nest so easily, and the event won't allow them to act so effortlessly either.

Following the draw of this round's event card, the drawn event card is extremely dangerous. The event card is named "Coolant Leak," and its effect is that a malfunction marker appears in the spaceship's reactor room. If a malfunction marker appears in the reactor, the spaceship will enter a 6-turn countdown to destruction. Obviously, this is not good news.

The only good news is that this kind of event card won't appear a second time.

Upon hearing the piercing alarm from the spaceship, Bronya realized something was wrong. Even Ilulu, who had never seen a spaceship before, could tell that things were in serious trouble.

"Whoa?! What, what's going on?!"

Bronya, who was standing nearby, explained Ilulu's nervousness as follows:

"Yes, the spaceship's reactor has leaked and it will self-destruct in 6 rounds."

"Self-destruct?!"

Upon hearing Bronya's words, Ilulu looked at Bronya with a shocked expression. Ilulu was clearly shocked by the news. Although she didn't understand what a reactor leak meant, she did understand the word "self-destruction."

Although Ilulu didn't know how powerful the explosion of the spaceship would be, she was absolutely certain that if the spaceship self-destructed, the game would be over.

"So what should we do now?!"

Bronya also spoke to the others about Ilulu's problem:

"There's no other way but to have the engineer, Titi, repair it. However, we need two combat personnel to protect Titi. Yurin and Yuki, go together. Yuki, you can take a weapon with you too, it'll add some firepower."

Yuki nodded in agreement with Bronya's suggestion, since having more firepower would make the mission much easier.

However, Yuhaka and her group also received information about the incident, and they had some thoughts about it.

Volume 2 [Daily Life - Part 1]: Chapter 1644 [Bronya's Little Thoughts]

Yuhaka and Yoshino, who were on the nest side, understood what had happened after hearing the system alarm.

"Oh dear, it looks like the spaceship is going to self-destruct, Yu-Yu-chan. What should we do next?"

Upon hearing Yoshino's words, Yuhaka also showed a thoughtful expression. Soon, Yuhaka came up with a good idea, and then whispered to Yoshino beside him. After hearing Yuhaka's idea, Yoshino couldn't help but widen her eyes and slightly open her mouth, obviously a little surprised by Yuhaka's plan.

"Oh, that's a good plan!"

Upon hearing Yuhaka's plan, Yoshina clapped her hands in surprise, clearly indicating that she was quite satisfied with it.

With that, Yuhaka and Yoshino separated and went their separate ways.

As the next event occurred, Bronya and the others heard that a fire had broken out in the hibernation pod. This didn't bother Bronya much, since she didn't plan to stay on the spaceship. This made her somewhat indifferent, and the fact that the fire hadn't spread to the rooms around the hibernation pod was already considered a good thing for her.

Of course, Bronya was also secretly observing the situation of the others. After hearing the ship's AI report on the radio, Bronya saw that Abigail looked a little flustered. Obviously, the other party's goal was to take the ship back to Earth or to another destination. Ilulu, on the other hand, looked puzzled, obviously not knowing what would happen if the hibernation pod caught fire. However, Bronya thought that the other party might be using it for the first time and didn't quite understand what was going on.

However, Bronya didn't pay much attention to these things and told everyone to be careful. After all, they were already very close to the alien creature's lair, but so far they hadn't encountered any alien creatures, which made everyone wonder. Bronya was also very puzzled as to why the other side hadn't appeared. Could it be that the other side had used all its forces to attack Little Titi and his group who were repairing the reactor?

With these questions in mind, Bronya tried contacting Titi and the others, saying:

"Little Titi, have you encountered any alien creatures over there?"

Upon hearing Bronya's words, Titi's side also reported that they hadn't encountered a single alien creature, which puzzled them. After hearing their report, Bronya immediately looked at the projected map on her arm with a serious expression and said with a puzzled look:

"What exactly does Youyou's mother want to do?"

Bronya felt a headache coming on at the thought of her adoptive mother starting to use her brain. If it were an ordinary person, Bronya wouldn't have to worry about anything, but the problem was that it was Yhaka. The other person's thought process was completely unimaginable for ordinary people. Although Bronya herself also had the blood of the original Zerg, the problem was that her upbringing was completely different from Yhaka's.

"Bronya-chan, what should we do now?"

Upon hearing Abigail's voice, Bronya looked at the little girl who was a few centimeters taller than her and didn't know what to say. Although Bronya had only been growing for a short time, she was much more mature than her peers.

"Hmm... If I'm not mistaken, Yu-Yu's mother probably set up some kind of trap for us to fall into, or she might be planning to ambush Titi and the others, and launch an attack as soon as they finish repairing the reactor."

After hearing Bronya's analysis, Abigail looked at Bronya with a somewhat flustered expression and said:

"Then, let's hurry over and go support Titi and the others, otherwise they won't be able to withstand the attacks from Yuu-chan and the others, right?"

Bronya shook her head at Abigail's concerns and said:

"Abby, you can rest assured about this. Youlin is a scout, and she can see through any ambush. As long as those alien creatures appear in the rooms near them, Youlin will be able to find the enemies. It's impossible for Youyou's mother to surround them with such methods."

Hearing Bronya's words, Abigail nodded with a half-believing look. Although she was a little worried about Titi and the others, their current mission was quite important. If the nest was not destroyed, a large number of larvae and reptiles would appear. At least if the nest was burned, they would not have to worry about enemies like larvae and reptiles.

Of course, the most important thing is the insect eggs. It's not just for researching these things, but also because one of Bronya's mission objectives is to take away one insect egg, and the second is to eliminate the queen of the alien creatures.

The first objective is simple; just go to the nest and you can get that thing. However, the second objective is a bit more difficult to achieve. After all, it's practically impossible to eliminate the Queen with ordinary firepower. Although the Queen isn't infinitely alive, with Bronya and the others' current firepower, they won't be able to kill her before a large number of adult insects and two powerful guards wipe them out.

The best way is to eliminate the enemy using room facilities that are essentially designed to cause a plot-driven death. This is the fastest way to eliminate the queen.

However, Bronya didn't think Yhaka would be that stupid, so... the best way was to destroy the spaceship, which would also eliminate the other players and prevent them from achieving any objectives.

Once a player is eliminated, it is considered a failure, regardless of whether they have completed all the objectives.

After arriving at the location of the nest, Bronya and the others saw a room formed from a strange, slimy substance. A large amount of nauseating material formed a kind of incubation chamber, resembling the interior of a living organism. Inside this incubation chamber were dozens of eggs, each the size of a dragon's egg. Looking at the eggs, Bronya showed a happy expression and said to the others:

“Alright, Abigail and I will each take one egg; that way we'll be safer.”

After hearing Bronya's words, Abigail looked at Bronya with a puzzled expression and said:

"But Abby's weapon inventory is already full!"

In response to Abigail's question, Bronya pointed to the pistol-like syringe on Abigail's body and said:

"Then let's throw that thing away. It's basically useless now, so let's just throw it away."

P.S.: I'm too sleepy, going to bed.

Volume 2 [Daily Life Arc - 1]: Chapter 1645 [The Last Weakness, The Beginning of the Race]

Upon hearing Bronya's words, Abigail seemed to understand and threw the syringe, which resembled a small pistol, to the ground from her waist. Although this was the psychiatrist's exclusive weapon, it had no ability to cause harm, and the tranquilizer on it could not have any effect on alien creatures. Its only function was to interrupt players from panicking and causing them to engage in negative behaviors.

Of course, it's not just about what players do when they're in a state of panic; the key is what actions players take that can interrupt the actions of others.

Bronya had Abigail throw the syringe to prevent Abigail from noticing anything and interrupting her actions. Although the captain has the ability to command all the crew members, the problem is that the psychiatrist has a weapon that could potentially interrupt the captain's ability, since the psychiatrist is a character who can use tranquilizers on other crew members to attack the player.

If interrupted, any attack action, movement, or interaction with objects in the room will stop. This not only wastes the action cards already used, but also wastes the player's turn.