The first thing Opal did after disembarking from the spaceship was to go to the auction house to pawn the commemorative coin that Thangka lost to him. However, when he found out that the gold coin that Thangka lost to him was not a valuable item at all, it was just a very ordinary card. When he was making chips in the casino in the Martyrs area, he suddenly had the urge to issue a wanted order to hunt down Thangka.
"I'm going to be poor and crazy!" Opal complained sadly.
Raymond said: "The money will definitely be there. You will take care of all the money I entrusted to you. What else?"
Raymond didn't seem too happy either, and Opal understood it almost as soon as he thought about it.
Opal turned and walked backwards in front of him, saying, "I don't think you earn less."
Raymond said: "Read my heart again, you always bully me, you know what I think."
Opal said: "I haven't read your heart, I haven't read anyone's heart for a long time, I just know, just like you know when I'm in a bad mood."
Raymond understood and said, "Is that so? But I always think you're in a bad mood lately."
Opal said: "Maybe, I always feel that something is holding back in my heart, and I have the urge to vent. I want to yell and beat you."
Raymond didn't quite understand Opal.
Opal used a combination of fists and kicks, pushing and arching Raymond, his fists against his arms, and he kept kicking him, saying, "That's it, that's it, I want to kill you, hack you to death, and get angry when I see you..."
Raymond laughed, took the Opal in his arms, and said, "I see, you want to have sex."
Opal: "!!!"
Raymond said: "Let me think of a way... um."
Opal blushed and said: "But fantasy movements and dream machines can recognize age, what do you want me to do?"
Raymond said with a smile: "Don't think about it, go back to the commission and go."
The Great Astronautical Association is divided into five floors and covers an area of hundreds of square kilometers. This building is like a small city. The first floor under the circular vault is full of sunlight. Robots shuttle in and out of the hall, which can be seen everywhere. With flying screens, adventurers use these independent facilities to return commissions and tasks.
"Area No. 16, the entrusted entry point of the Free Galaxy," a female voice suggested.
Raymond jumped off the flight board and went to report the request. Opal stood aside and watched curiously. He always felt nervously that he was too short. Although in theory, the anti-growth surgery was only a retrospective of his age, but he was fifteen years old anyway. , just got to Raymond's chest high
Opal said, "You have to follow the instructions!"
Raymond entered a few times, but it showed an error, and said impatiently: "Don't make trouble."
Opal pulled Raymond's hand away: "Hey, will you, will you change me!"
Raymond: "In the name of Horius..."
Opal: "It's no use praying... and I can call Horius an uncle..."
Raymond: "Don't press me with your seniority, my dad is also related to him... No, not here!"
Opal: "I see them all doing this..."
Opal pressed a key, and the words "coming to format" flashed on the screen. Raymond immediately said: "Don't touch anything! Never touch anything! You sit aside!"
Opal was scolded again, it was so boring, I didn't feel it when I was with Raymond at first, but after a long time I began to realize that this guy is always like this - nothing particularly violent, his love is not like fire, There is no particular urge either.
But let's say I don't love him, Raymond loves him again, and he still loves him very much, even Opal can feel it, but he doesn't show particularly domineering and crazy behavior. Now they don't need to use their lives to protect each other, because the adventurer's missions are all single, which makes him lack the sense of accomplishment to fight with Raymond.
Opal thought for a while and said, "Come to me in the rest area after you get the money."
"Well." Raymond frowned and looked at the information machine and said, "Aren't you happy again?"
Opal looked at Raymond and found that Raymond still cared about him, otherwise he would not have noticed his mood from time to time.
"No." Opal said listlessly, "I love you."
Raymond said, "I love you too. It'll be a while."
Opal hummed, and Raymond said again: "You can go to get the regulations and enter the reserve assessment team. Xiao Q! Don't touch the water dispenser! You will be short-circuited!"
Opal followed E7, and walked through the entrustment return area to the government office. In the transparent glass living room, many employers and adventurers were sitting in twos and threes chatting about entrustment. He went to the beverage vending machine to buy a bottle of Sunshine Coffee and saw The E7's camera is looking right at a big machine.
[Robot polishing and waxing service, make your partner as new as ever.]
"Would you like to be polished, E7?" Opal asked, sipping his coffee. "I thought maybe you could rub your camera lens."
E7: "DiDiDi..."
Opal bought a five-minute cleaning service and threw the E7 into the big box like a washing machine, and there was a screeching sound inside.
"The surrounding galaxies in the grip of light have opened up to the entire universe..."
After Opal took the charter, he heard a voice from the side. Opal was attracted by the conversation between the employer and the adventurers. He narrowed his eyes and listened. Some adventurers were very wary of secrets, while others were With an indifferent attitude.
The man said: "Yes, so we would like to ask you to investigate the living conditions, social norms and political environment around Tokuyama. Including detailed local information, as well as materials, tax rates, funds, food and daily life, racial issues, etc... Everything that is not mentioned in the immigration ad requires your investigation…”
The adventurer who approached this mission was a fat middle-aged man. He thought about it and said, "Are you planning to immigrate?"
"I have this plan." The man glanced at his wife and said, "It is said that the scenery on Deshan is very beautiful, and the energy price is generally ten percent lower than that of the Star Alliance, and the tax rate is not high. We do not want to bear the burden of the empire. The tax is over, which makes life very stressful…”
The woman smiled at him.
Opal interjected behind the sofa and said, "The government of the Meteor Empire is a little poor."
Several people laughed, and the fat adventurer smiled and said, "Have you been there?"
Opal nodded and said, "Their money is used to build aircraft carriers. It is estimated that they are too poor now. I heard that they want to open a business route with the Republic or something..."
"Ah—" Several people understood at the same time.
"That's right." The man said, "Coroline advocates reopening the road to oblivion, and it is precisely because of this that the Minister of Finance of the Empire and the upper echelons of the Holy See are quarreling with each other... In short, please."
The middle-aged fat man put away the Adventurer's Handbook and said, "Let's go through the formalities now."
The three of them left, Opal sat down on the sofa, E7 finished polishing, and climbed onto the sofa with silver light, the camera was aimed at Opal, and the lens refracted the sun, and it tinkled brightly.
Opal gave it a duel and said, "Forty-eight credits! You fell under the lure of material things, E7!"
"Can you fill out the form?" Raymond came over and asked.
"Yeah." Opal moved to the side, Raymond sat on the sofa and put his arms around him, and the two read the adventurer's charter in the information chip together. Opal is fifteen years old and can start to lead the Great Astronautical Association. An informal form that takes a year to prepare for formal entry, during which the association will give these newcomers some observational tasks to confirm whether the information they gather is useful.
"You have to find some big work to do," Raymond said. "You can't make money faster than you spend."
Opal had read the charter many times, and he turned it over quickly and said, "Are you out of money again?"
The two had a good time on Lie Xing before, but after they came to the Great Astronautical Association, everything went back to nothing. The advantage of being an adventurer is that you don't have to encounter unexpected events that will kill your life or have the wrong product anytime, anywhere. The downside is that the money comes at a slower rate.
Raymond said: "I don't know if there is any mission to assassinate the Emperor of the Empire, or kidnap the daughter of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for ransom..."
"Oh no no." Opal crossed Erlang's legs and said, "This is not good, it should be 'protect the emperor from assassination', or 'rescue the kidnapped daughter of the chancellor', etc..."
Raymond laughed and poured a glass of wine. Opal saw that after a brief exchange between E7 and Xiao Q, the two little robots ran together. He went over to look at the machine that was cleaning the robot, and said angrily: "E7! You Can you not tell your brother about this!"
Raymond laughed, got up and turned on the machine to scrub Xiao Q. After Opal filled out the form, he said, "I really need to find some work that contains a lot of money. I'm too short of money."
When Opal and Raymond left the Grip of Rotation, they were completely poor. I don't know if it was Cororin's omission or deliberate, and their personal accounts were empty.
The pension, the old VI spacecraft, and the money in the mercenary group are all on the star. They went to King's Wharf like a penniless interstellar wanderer. After arriving, they filled in the personal account declaration and received a poverty alleviation payment. Funding, however, that's only Raymond's, because Opal is underage.
Raymond began to receive commissions to upgrade with difficulty. It took nearly four years to upgrade to Six of Hearts. This is the lowest level in the official adventurer team. It is no longer easy to upgrade from the sixth level, and it takes a lot of upgrade points to accumulate. previous suit.
Among the adventurers’ commissions, the survey category accounts for 60%, and surveys require considerable experience, luck, and connections. Without connections, it’s impossible to move an inch in this universe. It took Raymond a long time to figure out the commission routine, and commissions sometimes succeed. Sometimes they fail, and the reported investigation details sometimes fail to pass the review of the association, which makes it very difficult for them to survive. They often have to wander in the universe for many days, and the reward has just offset the fuel money of the spacecraft.
Opal sometimes feels that he didn't know it before, but now compared to it, the welfare of Lie Xing is really good! A ton of standard navigation fuel costs only 280 credits, and on King's Wharf, there is no local energy production, all energy is purchased from the empire, and a ton of standard navigation costs 3,300 credits, plus extras Taxes, environmental pollution taxes, form taxes, and spacecraft energy consumption taxes, etc., each time they go out for a commission, they need more than 4,000 credit points for energy consumption.
Fortunately, he is finally fifteen years old, and he can also make a commission with Raymond, which can at least save the energy cost of Times VI.
"What are you going to do now?" Raymond said, "You are very beautiful, little Q kid."
Xiao Q was running around on the floor like a madman, Opal filled out the form, glanced at it, and said, "You even gave it a luxury service... E7 only wiped for five minutes... Go, go and apply for the reserve. "
Raymond leaned on Opal's shoulders, and the two went to the second floor. When they passed a vending machine, Xiao Q and E7 ran over to see the anti-gravity flight accessories, which cost a full 25,000 credit points.
Opal almost wanted to kneel for these two robots, and he said loudly: "Little Q! I'll turn you off if you buy anything more!"
Raymond whistled, and two robots came over. Raymond smiled and said, "Dad has no money, so be nice."
Opal can't laugh or cry, the robot Corolin gave him is simply a money-eating beast! If I don't do anything serious, I can't help with driving the spaceship, and I also broke the E7. I want to buy things and accessories as soon as I come out.
Raymond explained to Opal: "This should be an autonomous evolution system set up by him, so that the little robot itself has its own program."
Opal burst into tears and said, "It will evolve well, but I have no money—"
Raymond said: "The money will definitely be there, don't worry, after you become a reserve member, we will find a commission from several nearby galaxies, and you will get two rewards every time you come back."
"Hope it." Opal said helplessly. He still misses Lie Xing's working environment, but in fact, his reason tells him that Lie Xing is not a place suitable for long-term development. Although the commission remuneration is large, it is directly related to life.
This was especially true of the commissions he and Raymond had gone through before. The reaper in the underground cave, the mothership of the pirates, the war of the female Luoxing, etc... Every time I risked my life to complete the task, now I think about it, I really feel that my life is big, if there is anything wrong, I guess I will never go back. not coming.
"Which appraiser to look for?" Opal looked around at the reception on the second floor and glanced at Raymond inquiringly.
Each single room in the sixteen bubble rooms has an appraiser. These appraisers are responsible for resolving the adventurers' complaints about rank, system and strength, and at the same time give a proper evaluation to the newcomers.
Raymond thought for a while and whispered, "I didn't pay much attention when we came here more than three years ago."
Opal said, "Is that the woman you were looking for last time?"
Raymond snorted, narrowed his eyes, and said, "I'm not busy, I think a good appraiser can make a big difference, maybe you can skip the preparatory period and get promoted."
Opal said: "I think so too, let's take a look around... Little Q! I've had enough of you! Don't touch that thing!"
E7 brought back Xiao Q. After the two robots were improved by Cororin, they seemed carefree every day, full of curiosity, and they had to move when they saw anything. Opal is still struggling with money and work, but Q runs to the corner of the hall to remove the groove for the floor cleaner.
Raymond and Opal walked around the bubble room, and a woman said, "A newcomer? Come here."
Opal waved his hand, and Raymond said, "What is she thinking about?"
Opal said: "I don't like reading minds very much anymore, do you want to know?"
Raymond said: "Just curious, I guess these clerks have a commission."
"Your curiosity is as strong as Xiao Q." Opal laughed, Raymond poked Opal's head, suddenly found something, and said, "Wife, look over there."
Opal followed what Raymond was counting on, and in the most remote corner room there was a green bubble, and there was a mess of things inside, moldy spider plant fruit, a sink with a layer of asphalt floating, and a sticky floor glue, There was a wooden table in the middle, with a sticky mass huddled behind the table, two eyes tangled together on the tentacles, head bowed, motionless.
"A Green Mercury?" Opal said in confusion, "There are also Green Mercury here?"
Raymond said: "Find him."
Opal said: "No no, his office is so disgusting..."
Raymond picked up the Opal horizontally and entered the bubble of the Green Mercury.
It woke up immediately.
The Green Mercury man was refreshed, opened his eyes on the tentacles, and rubbed his hands together: "Hello, friends."
Opal noticed a glossy seal on his desk that said "Bengbeng".
Raymond hugged Opal, and his boots were full of mud made by the Green Mercury. He politely said: "Hello, Mr. Bengbeng, we are here to evaluate the newcomers, do you have a place to sit here? ?"
"Ah—" The Green Mercury people made a move and said, "Please sit anywhere, I mean... I'm so sorry, I haven't been here for a long time, I've been snubbed, you know, they all like to find something else Assessor, it's been a long, long time before someone came to me... It's not fair to me, obviously green Mercury people are the smartest race in this universe, we just need to look in your eyes to know what you are suitable for and what you are not suitable for what… "
The corner of Opal's mouth twitched: "I think we should just talk like this."
Raymond hugged Opal, let him sit on the table, and put his arms around him from behind. The Green Mercury man didn't know whether it was because he had no business for too long or was just like that, and he started to go crazy.
"I've been here for almost two thousand years..." Beng Beng said: "Nature has a spirit, everything in the world has a spirit, and we can see the material of the spirit... So President Muri gave me a place to live. , one person is full, the whole family is not hungry, but they all ostracize me and envy my ability..."
Opal said: "Uh, I believe it." Then he looked at Raymond again, his expression was clear at a glance, do you really want to evaluate here
Even Raymond himself was a little unsure. He interrupted Beng Beng's long speech and said, "Is it possible to evaluate him now."
Bengbeng opened the drawer and said, "Green Mercury doesn't need me anymore... I have made a lot of contributions to the clan, but they expelled me, and Binbin expelled me directly, but I believe that I came to see me today. The best choice of your life."
Raymond asked, "You were on Green Mercury..."
Bengbeng said: "I am the elder, the first elder... Let me see your little lover, come here."
It looked at Raymond with one eye and the Opal with the other. Raymond was a little uncomfortable when he saw it, so he politely grabbed its tentacles and turned it at a small angle, facing the Opal, and said: "It's him who needs to be assessed."
Bengbeng said, "Ah, big man, you don't seem to be human."
Opal and Raymond were shocked at the same time.
Fortunately, Bengbeng stopped paying attention to Raymond after saying this. He turned his eyes to Opal and asked, "What's your name? Child."
"His name is Opal." Raymond said.
Bengbeng scribbled a few lines of words on a piece of flexible paper. Six lines of different words were written simultaneously with six hands. Raymond stared at the words in confusion, and Bengbeng's eyes twitched, as if Fully awake, he said, "This is the ancient green mercury text, which represents my evaluation and opinion on you. Do you want to be an adventurer?"
Opal said, "Well, so here comes your reserve assessment."
Bengbeng said: "Ah, a beautiful khakiwana stone is gradually shining under the carving of your lover, what type of reserve task do you need? Or, in your heart, what is the thing you desire most? Please don't lie, answer me directly."
Raymond and Opal said in unison:
"money."