In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

"Hello everyone~" the jellyfish avatar replied with a greeting, followed by:

"Who's the strongest person in this group? I want to challenge him to a one-on-one duel!"

Lu Mingfei's lips twitched slightly as he looked at the sentence on the screen.

—Well, that's exactly the kind of person Old Tang could train. Whether they can win or not, they have to fight first and then worry about everything else…

Even in terms of playing style, he has always been this sunny and tough guy. His favorite thing to do is to charge forward with spearmen, and with his precise micro-management, even Lu Mingfei sometimes falls under his hands.

While his mind was wandering through these random thoughts, Lu Mingfei began responding to the newcomers in the group chat:

"You're the strongest in the group."

—Then he led a group of uniformly chanting "You're the strongest in the group."

Clearly, this mere "compromise" wasn't enough to satisfy the jellyfish avatar. Or rather, she joined the group looking for a rival, and seeing that she hadn't managed to stir up conflict so the group members could choose a suitable opponent, she began searching for one herself:

"You're the group owner? Let's have a match. If I win, you can give me the group, right?"

Lu Mingfei thought for a moment, then nodded:

"Okay, my ID is Mingming, go search for me. You choose the terrain and race, and I'll play a match with you according to your selection, how about it?"

Clearly, this move startled the jellyfish on the other side, so much so that it didn't send any other messages for a long time—while the group of chatterboxes continued to spam the chat with rows and rows of "Mingming is mighty"...

After a long while, the jellyfish sent a new message:

"Okay, I've added you. Please accept my request."

Lu Mingfei then logged into the game, accepted [wo~]'s friend request, and started a battle.

Protoss, wo~, versus, Terran, clearly!

Lu Mingfei decisively started with a single mine and two gas fields, built a supply depot and a barracks, purchased a technology item at the barracks, and incidentally produced a bald head.

In StarCraft, buildings have an unlocking condition: for the Zerg, this involves three upgrades to the main base and other buildings. However, for the Protoss and Terran, there is no such condition as upgrading the main base.

Among the numerous high-end buildings, Lu Mingfei chose:

Ghost Military Academy!

……

The Ghost Academy unlocks training capabilities for Ghost Agents (referred to as Ghost Soldiers by players), and it can also provide Ghost Soldiers with nuclear weapons and upgrades to their stealth abilities.

—Although a nuclear bomb takes more than ten seconds to guide, its powerful destructive force undoubtedly justifies the time spent.

Since it was a single-mine, double-gas opening, Lu Mingfei quickly produced a Ghost and pulled along an SCV. The Ghost, the bald guy, and the SCV then headed towards the top lane together.

The Protoss opened a second base and was building a defensive line. The bald guy quickly took out the Protoss's construction plate (referring to the Photon Cannon, a Protoss defensive unit). The SCV then built a bunker on the spot, allowing the bald guy and it to hide inside and play mahjong.

The ghost soldiers activated their invisibility, slipped into the main mine, and began probing along the edge.

Teleportation portals, control cores, stargates, fleet beacons...

Hmm? Why does this look so familiar?

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment.

But before he could make any connections, the Protoss air force swept across the bunker. It was a Void Ray, capable of using Prism Beams to strike enemies.

Its attacks have a bonus against heavily armored units—well, actually many units have a bonus against heavily armored units, which is why there's a term like "heavy armor shroud" in the game.

Therefore, it quickly destroyed the bunker, took care of the bald guy and SCV inside, and then returned to deal with the Ghosts that had sneaked into the main mine.

However, the ghost soldier was not entirely useless. Before it died, it destroyed the enemy's detection unit, the "Warp Prism," temporarily depriving the enemy of their detection unit.

"These four buildings...could it be?"

Lu Mingfei muttered to himself, but ignored it and focused on managing his base. The opposing team opened a stargate, so Lu Mingfei opened a starport and equipped it with accessories. He also upgraded the armory's attack and defense systems in preparation for the next offensive.

I replenished three barracks at home, equipped them all with accessories, and also opened up a second and third mine. Then I stole a mine in the direction of eight o'clock, the purpose of which is currently unknown.

As for deploying troops, they sent out three more ghost soldiers and one mole of spearmen, in order to deal with the warp prisms and radiant ships flying in the sky, and also crammed in a few Viking fighters—

Although there's a saying that a Viking on the ground is no better than a chicken, a Viking in the sky is still very useful, okay?

These troops went out for a second wave, destroying the third base's defenses and taking care of the prisms and Illustrious ships flying in from the sky. Just as they broke into the second base's area of ​​effect, they saw the progress bar about to finish and the white orb of light on the opposite building—

"Judgment is imminent."

The mothership has been warped out!

……

"Haha!" Nuwa slammed her hand on the keyboard, making a loud clapping sound.

This guy dared to be so arrogant, actually saying things like "You can pick your own place and race," so of course she had to teach him a lesson.

As for the fact that she was the one who first suggested a fight? Nuwa has selectively forgotten that.

The process for deploying the Protoss fast mothership was taught to her by Old Tang, and after seeing the process, she deeply felt its fragility and powerlessness:

Why start with a single base? Wouldn't starting with two bases allow for faster development, and even provide additional units to compensate for mistakes when building the mothership...?

So she modified the process herself, which allowed her to conveniently pull out the Warp Prism and the Illusionary Ship during the game, and take out the opponent's Ghosts at the start.

As for now—

"There's an old saying, 'Since you're here, make the best of it...'" Nuwa narrowed her eyes, her serpentine waist coiling even more tightly.

"Since we've come this far, let us be buried here!"

She was confident. The mothership could fire four beams of light at once, so it wasn't afraid of that mole of marines; it could take them out one by one...

boom!

A nuclear bomb fell from the sky, crashing into her main mine. Nuwa immediately switched screens to observe, only to see a slight distortion on the computer screen—

The invisible unit is undoubtedly the enemy's Ghost unit!

While invisible units can be seen on the screen with close inspection, being able to see them doesn't mean the player can hit them. Without units with detection capabilities like warp prisms or photon turrets, even if the player sees them, they cannot attack them.

"Hoo..." Taking a deep breath and then exhaling, Nuwa immediately activated the warp prism's production mechanism inside the building—

Thankfully, thankfully, she didn't rush (actually, she couldn't keep up with the manual controls) and activate the warp prism prematurely, otherwise, that nuclear missile would have destroyed everything... As for the dead probe...

"As long as the buildings are still standing, once we clear out this wave of troops, we'll still have a chance. After all, I still have some minerals left; if all three bases produce mining rigs together, we can recover."

Nuwa comforted herself inwardly, but she exerted even more force in her hand, knocking away the ghost soldiers detected by the prism.