Chapter 21

Chapter 21. A Week of Party Time (3)

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No lies accepted.

Seriously, don’t lie.

Even though I was staring at her with all these emotions, Jessica didn’t take back her words.

“Commander… No matter how much you say it, what can’t be done just can’t be done.”

“…Sigh.”

No matter how much I deny it, what’s already happened won’t just disappear.

And even if Jessica were to take back her words, it’s not like I’d accept it anyway.

<Resource Mining Ship is under attack.>

<Evading maneuvers in progress.>

<Dumping all stored resources to increase evasion rate.>

‘Ugh, my resources.’

Our enthusiastic Status Window was already giving me real-time updates on what those pirate scoundrels were up to.

Thanks to that damn raid, our resources, which should’ve been 700, came in at 525, just like yesterday.

On top of that, we lost one of our resource mining spots.

“Commander… What are you going to do?”

“Hmm…”

I was supposed to feel absolutely furious about the current situation, but…

<Resource Zone under attack.>

<Enemy scale: 1 Destroyer, 2 Patrol Ships.>

“Sigh… What can I do?”

“Do you have any ideas, Commander?”

“Deploy two Destroyers and eight Patrol Ships, and annihilate those who attacked our resource zone.”

“Understood, Commander.”

It’s not like I could just sit still.

Since it wasn’t the time to waste time looking for a new resource zone, I immediately sent troops to reclaim our resource zone.

At the same time, I started repairing the Resource Mining Ship that barely made it back alive.

“At least it’s a relief that the mining ship didn’t get completely destroyed and managed to return.”

“True.”

Losing some resources is one thing, but it’s better than having the ship explode and needing to build a new one.

Given that Resource Mining Ships are, by nature, larger than most Cruisers, the resources needed to produce them are way more expensive than Destroyers. So, it’s better if they don’t explode.

Of course, it would’ve been best if they brought back some resources too, but…

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Title: Nah, attacking my money source is crossing the line

Author: ㅇㅇ

Content: [Damage Report Message], [Damage Report Message 2]

I thought the enemies weren’t coming today, so I was finally taking a break.

But those damn bastards ambushed my resource zone.

I frantically pulled my fleet and pushed them back, but two out of three Resource Mining Ships exploded.

I’m so pissed, seriously.

Comments:

-[You too? Me too.]

-[LOLOLOLOLOL]

-[LOL]

-[Wait, were you only farming one resource zone?]

-˪[Wait, can you farm multiple resource zones at the same time?] (Author)

-˪[Why do you think you can’t farm multiple zones at once?]

-˪[Huh?] (Author)

-˪[What?]

-[Why are these guys just chatting with each other like comedians?]

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Title: If you’re a follower of victory through diversification, thumbs up LOLOLOLOLOL

Author: Ant

Content: ㅇㄷㄴㅂㅌ

Comments:

-[It’s fine.]

-[Ah, damn it.]

-[It’s fine.]

-[Thumbs up.]

-[Thumbs up.]

-˪[Hehe, bro.]

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…As you can see from the gallery’s state.

There are countless cases where Resource Mining Ships didn’t even make it back alive.

And seeing so many cases where people focused on just one resource zone and got completely screwed over.

Compared to those fools, my situation isn’t that dangerous.

As always, the existence of those who messed up worse than me.

Becomes the driving force for everyone around to keep going strong every day.

Plus, as I mentioned earlier, unlike them, I’ve adopted the ‘victory through diversification’ strategy.

All I have to do is laugh at those who put all their eggs in one basket while annihilating the pirates who attacked my resource zones.

According to the great ‘Lanchester’s Laws,’ even if we charge in mindlessly, we can crush them without taking losses.

By having more than double the firepower of the pirates attacking our resource zones.

After deciding to crash in…

During this time, our superhumans, who had been torn apart through continuous battles…

“Huuaaaa…”

“Seems like we’re really going to live.”

“Haaah♡ C-Commander’s stuff is filling me up♡”

“Isn’t that just a smoothie the Commander made? If we’re not careful, the game’s rating might go up.”

“Huh? I don’t get what you’re saying? Censoring a game based on its content, there’s no way such a country exists♡”

“Well, that’s true.”

Somehow, with these oddly meta comments, we were having a good time in the lounge set up in the base.

And today, my only tasks were to check the automatic repairs of the existing ships and inspect the newly produced ones.

I also checked if the heavily damaged resource mining ship was being repaired properly and whether the fleets sent to the resource zones fought normally.

Thanks to the significantly reduced workload compared to usual, I continued with some volunteer work for the superhuman characters who had worked hard.

Of course, this was more of a gesture of appreciation for their hard work.

“Umm♡ Commander, come and rest with us♡”

“No.”

Because fatigue had built up.

With Pashtra, who was getting a full-body massage naked, trying to seduce me, situations that could endanger a teenager’s something were…

“Hiiing, that’s too much.”

I immediately cut it off and maintained strict social distancing (?).

Of course, Pashtra quickly started to express her dissatisfaction with my attitude.

“Commander, didn’t you used to lust after my body whenever you were bored?”

“…”

“Back then, you even burdened yourself with a very embarrassing title to deceive us about your affection.”

“…Ahem.”

“What did you say? You definitely asked to be called ‘Saint ChuChu SquishySquishy Mama Tongue Twister Commander’ back then…”

“…”

In the midst of this, I naturally glanced at the clock and couldn’t help but feel a chill inside.

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But as you can see, with just 3 people + 2 (me, Jessica) resting, there couldn’t be that much work to do.

So, not long after starting this volunteer work,

Feeling quite peaceful, I decided to open the community to roughly check how things were going.

And as soon as I entered the community, the first post I saw was…

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Title: Trashing noobs who can’t mine resources is so satisfying

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of ship destruction]

These guys were so broke they couldn’t even afford a resource mining ship, so when I pestered them with a patrol ship, seeing them get all nervous and freak out was hilarious

Losers lololololol

Then when their destroyer got destroyed, they went absolutely berserk

Comments closed

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Seeing this post, where even comments were blocked, purely to boast about their malicious attitude, made my eyebrows furrow involuntarily.

Of course, other users had similar reactions to such an attitude.

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-What kind of loser is that? (14)

-Ugh, disgusting;; (5)

-Closing comments and shitting out posts, that’s really gross (6)

-It’s a gallery, but without moderators, these brain-dead losers come crawling out (9)

-Look at this guy leaving comments on posts insulting him, he’s really a true loser (7)

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Of course, such first-class losers were in no way enjoyable.

I also couldn’t help but feel genuinely regretful seeing such behavior.

But unlike most users who only talked trash,

When a post revealed that the guy who wrote that crap had been doing all sorts of nonsense since possessing here,

The anger accumulated towards the troll exploded, and finally, some veterans started to draw their swords.