Opal said: "Listen, I know Azeroth, you dare to deduct our points..."
Clerk: "Who's afraid of you! You know Azeroth as a person! He even wrote a love letter to my grandmother last time!!"
Opal: "… "
Raymond: "… "
The two quarreled for a full ten minutes, and finally applied for arbitration at the trade union office. This point was postponed first and then picked up, and they all came out in a frenzy. Opal went to overhaul the weapons and repair, and Raymond took the task in the trade union hall.
"Opal." Raymond pressed his finger on the ear button: "We have to take on tasks with more points and make more money by the way."
Opal was in the entertainment store looking at a new sex toy box Fantasy Movement that included twin dolphins, a pair of blue jellyfish clear condoms and a coupler.
The boss said: "Why, do you want to buy one? Really want it? I know you want it very much! You've seen it several times, this is a fantasy movement for two people! It's all for men! Let you and yours be good Dude, have fun with orgasm together, only 10,000 credit points for two..."
"Oh." Opal hurriedly put down the box, waved his hand to tell the boss not to say more, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he said casually: "Do you want to advance quickly?"
Raymond thought for a while and said, "It's not like that... Forget it, try to get some rich people. Do you want to take a vacation?"
Opal said: "I'm casual, in fact, it's quite like a vacation when I'm on a mission."
Raymond looked up at the bulletin board and said, "There is a 200,000 team commissioned to find someone."
Opal said: "I know that mission, released by Sid, is too difficult, our rating is not up to the requirements, don't take it."
Raymond said: "Well... the mission deadline is ten cosmic years, which is not worth it."
Raymond raised his head, and the light screen in the ring hall flew around. Every time a rectangular light screen flew out, a team received a task. Raymond asked: "Investigate the dangerous creatures on the uninhabited planet, one hundred and sixty. points, 16,600 points reward, how about this?"
Opal: "Sounds okay, how long is the journey?"
Raymond said: "Explore from the Photon Star towards the Orion..."
Raymond's slender index finger pressed against his ear buckle, the outsider looked like he was talking to himself, and someone next to him came over and said, "Hello, sir."
Raymond removed his index finger, nodded towards him, and looked at him inquiringly.
"I heard you talking about this commission." Sid said: "Are you willing to accept it? I saw you and Opal quarreling just now..."
Raymond said: "It's not that Opal and I are arguing, it's the two of us who are arguing with the office staff. We won't accept this commission."
Sid was helpless and said, "I've been waiting here for six days."
Raymond twitched his eyebrows and said, "We are not of sufficient rank, and now is not the time to accept the search request, ten years."
Sid said: "But you can also help me find someone while taking other requests... You can bring me..."
"Listen." Raymond said: "I understand your feelings, but we really can't do it. Our deputy head is a dead brain. Once he accepts this commission, he will definitely find it. Bring you more Impossible, we can't even protect ourselves."
"You can ask for help from others." Raymond made a gesture and said, "There are many high-level mercenary groups in the country of mercenaries, especially B-rank and above... Many of them are no longer commissioned for money and ratings, maybe would be interested in these challenges.”
Sid nodded perfunctorily, Raymond sighed, took the next survey commission, went to meet Opal, and set out the task.
The mission this time was unexpectedly smooth. The two only needed to take a survey machine to go around the unmanned planet. However, the new wasteland took a long time to go back and forth, and the distance from the star gate was also far away. , Opal is so stuffy that mushrooms grow out of his head.
Thirty cosmic days later, they successfully returned to the strong star, and the magnetic storm came.
The last wave of spaceships landed on the tarmac, and the crowd was full of people, waiting for the train that came to carry passengers. All the small shuttles on the ground were canceled to avoid accidents. When the train took them back to the union headquarters, it was already dark.
"Hurry up!" The clerk closed the door, leaving two small gates for the mercenaries to come in and out, and shouted, "I'm going to get off work soon! ASAP!"
Raymond ran wetly into the hall to deliver the commission. People came and went. Opal sat down in the corner, took off his boots and poured out the water inside. Noticing a man - Sid.
Is he still here? ! Opal remembered his mission to find someone, thirty-eight days had passed since their first meeting. During the period, there was no mercenary group to accept his commission. Is it too difficult
The information board was closed, and Sid was anxiously saying something to Raymond at the window. Raymond waved: "No, no."
He turned and walked towards Opal, and Sid chased after him, saying, "I beg of you."
Opal got up, and Raymond said, "Let's go and have a drink."
Opal, almost frozen, said, "Sid, come together."
Raymond glanced at Sid and acquiesced to Opal's invitation. The three went to the dining room and sat down.
Sid has been living in the inn in the opposite alley these days, Opal ordered food, and Raymond said: "You don't need to wait here, once someone picks up the entrustment, the union will use the long-wave communicator to notify yours."
Opal nodded and said: "I also think you should go to other planets to relax, even if you guard it, it is useless."
Sid sighed and said, "Help me, I bet everything I can trust."
Opal and Raymond looked at each other, and someone outside the door said loudly, "Sid!"
Sid got up immediately and said, "What's wrong?"
A young man came in, it was Xun, who gave Raymond and Opal a malicious glance.
Sid said: "Have a drink together."
"No." Xun said with a cold expression, "Let's go."
Sid smiled after Xun left, Opal and Raymond's eyes followed Xun's figure until he disappeared.
Raymond was smoking a cigarette and said vaguely, "Don't mix with him."
Sid said, "Xun is not what you think."
Opal couldn't help laughing, thinking it was very funny, Sid said: "Xun is a good man."
Opal shook his head with a helpless smile, and Raymond didn't bother to discredit him. The dishes were served. Opal listened to Sid's story about his plight while he was eating. This was indeed a very, very difficult task, so many mercenaries were watching the task. In the details, when you see the second line, the task is returned directly.
Each employer can choose their entrustment method. There are usually two categories: open and closed. Open entrustment faces all mercenaries, and you can check the details of the task before you can confirm whether to accept it or not.
The closed entrustment can only be viewed after receiving it, which is convenient for the confidentiality of the employer's identity.
There is also an encrypted entrustment. After the employer negotiates with the trade union, it communicates with the mercenary privately, and all responsibility is at your own risk.
"You should have chosen a closed commission at that time," Raymond said.
Opal: "Isn't this an obvious scam? The mercenaries are not fools. The task of tracing people plus a closed commission is still B-level, and no one will touch it."
"Yes." Raymond said.
Sid said: "My commission is to find my father."
Opal and Raymond were silent, and Sid said: "I... don't even know if he is dead, he is my only relative. The Republic issued his death certificate and a suicide note drawn up a long time ago, But I don't think he's dead yet..."
Raymond said: "Forget it."
"No." Opal said, "Go on."
Sid sighed and began to tell his story before he came to the Ares system. He was born in the central galaxy living area of the Republic. Like countless teenagers, he began to receive education at the Interstellar Union School at the age of six, and graduated at the age of ten to participate in vocational training. Employment at sixteen, twenty this year—two years older than Opal.
His father was a staff member of the Spark Express Company, a private industry with only a few spaceships and very little capital, delivering deliveries between the galaxies. Occasionally, he also contracted the transportation of goods in some remote areas, and privately did some small business of tax evasion and evasion with the local people.
Three years ago, Sid's father was dispatched to the Owl Nebula in M97 Ursa Major, taking a guest and his package to a designated destination. As a result, there was a big explosion at the edge of the nebula, and the entire spacecraft was blown up to the bone, killing the guests and the five crew members on board.
The Republic sent police to investigate. The situation at that time was very complicated. The M97 nebula showed some kind of instability, or a chain reaction of the explosion of a supernova, which caused the distortion of the remote force field and space. This is an unpredictable and catastrophic factor, so Spark Express received an insurance to compensate the spacecraft and life, and after distributing it, a new sailing team was reorganized.
Sid spent a full year fighting a lawsuit with the company. In the end, he was exhausted. After receiving insurance compensation, he bought a spaceship and went to the M97 Nebula to find his father. It took nearly two years and finally returned without success. .
The Republic no longer cares about this matter, and the identities of the victims are already in the archives. But Sid is still stubbornly tossing between planets, looking for his father's whereabouts. In his words, even if he died, he had to find a relic as proof, otherwise he would never feel at ease in this life.
However, how can it be so easy to find a piece of debris in the vast universe that can prove that his father is dead? Once the spaceship explodes, the energy of the atomic furnace is enough to turn everything into molecules and atoms. Even if the power of the explosion only shatters it, the resistance in space is extremely small. Extremely fast, throwing them into the endless darkness.
As long as these substances do not change their trajectory due to the impact, they will always follow the initial speed and advance endlessly in the vacuum environment. One year is enough for it to fly tens of millions of kilometers to search in the spherical area near the explosion point. Impossible to get anything.
Sid didn't hide it at all, and revealed the difficulty of the mission. This is simply the most difficult type of mercenary mission—finding the drifting victims. According to the standard rating, this commission will at least be rated A, and the reward points are 12,000. But because of Sid's remuneration, the A-level teamwork mission wouldn't have a team leader without 800,000.
Sid only had 200,000, so he downgraded the task.
A reward of 200,000, 12,000 cents, looking for a person who has been issued a death certificate by the Republic, the only reason to prove his survival is Sid's wishful thinking "I believe he is not dead".
No one will see such a commission.
Opal glanced at Raymond, and Raymond immediately understood what he meant, frowning: "You are crazy! We can't get the task rating alone, and our team is still E-level..."
Opal said: "Our strength is not only E-level, and he can be specially designated, and the reward is 12,000 points..."
Raymond said: "According to the mercenary regulations, lowering the commission level will reduce the points. If we accept it, in addition to the 200,000 commission, the remuneration will only be 240 points! Do you understand?"
Opal disagreed, neither of them spoke, and Raymond said to Sid, "We can't do it."
Opal suddenly said: "Wait, listen again, there is no loss, right? Sid, what makes you think your father is still alive?"
Sid shook his head, not wanting to say any more, and said, "Thank you."
Opal said: "No, no, after that, maybe we can give you some help?"
"You talk, I'm leaving." Raymond said angrily, then got up and left.
Opal sat on the chair, raised his palm, grabbed Raymond's finger, and said, "Hey, comrade-in-arms, don't do this."
Raymond's big hand was warm and comfortable. The two of them just held it lightly, and Raymond unnaturally shook off Opal's hand and went to the front desk to check out without saying a word. Meng ordered a few cups of coffee and came back.
"E7, is there any news recently?" Raymond sat down and asked.
The E7 beeps out a holographic newspaper, and Raymond pulls up a chair and sits with his back to them, casually smoking a cigarette and reading the newspaper.
Opal motioned to Sid and said, Sid thought about it, and said, "My mother died long before I was born."
Opal understood, nodded and said, "You are not pregnant by the mother."
"Well," Sid said. "She and my dad... eloped. Dad never mentioned her. I think she's rich, but it doesn't matter."
Opal: "What does this have to do with your father's birth?"
Sid said: "I was genetically cultivated. Dad left a bit of mother's blood, extracted chromosomes, put them together with his, and cultivated me. But my mother's genes have been destroyed by radiation, and only a lot of cells are left in the cells. Most of the missing part is made up with Dad's genes, so... I'm like Dad's clone."
Raymond's rustling of flipping the newspaper stopped.
Opal said: "So what?"
Sid said: "When I was young, I was different from everyone else. As soon as I left the newborn nursery, I was brought home by my father and raised with me almost every day. I... Maybe it's hard to believe, But I just know he's alive, and that's a... kind of faith."
The electronic sound of flipping the newspaper rang again.
Sid got up and said: "I know there will always be someone willing to help me, thank you, goodbye."