May you be happy and prosperous

"—31, 32, 33...34, all right!"

Putting the last gold coin into the purse on the other side, the black-haired young man sitting at the table stood up, picked up the heavy purse and shook it, seemingly contentedly listening to the jingling of the gold coin. Then he announced with a smile to his teammates who were sitting at the table and looked up at him with a smile: "Teammates, we have saved enough money to buy basic equipment for missions."

"It's really enough. What happened while I was sleeping?" Byron raised his head and looked at Lu Twelve. "Have you guys gone to rob?"

Lu Twelve moved his lips and answered, but was interrupted by Shabak at this moment. The muscular man stroked his two weapons wrapped in rags, and said without raising his head: "From In a way, he did something as bad as robbery."

"It's just a normal business." Lu Twelve's face was full of black lines.

"There are still deceitful people." Sabak added seriously.

Lu Twelve: "..."

Sabak: "You exchanged for [-] gold coins without any loss, and you used conspiracy to prevent others from lowering the price. This is a despicable villain's behavior."

Lu Twelve: "'It makes sense, but I'm powerless to refute it'—do you think I would say that?! Who said I have nothing to lose, can't I smell the stinky oily smoke all over my body? I have to go back later How troublesome it is to take a shower!"

Sabak: "The smell of oily smoke can't cover up your treacherous aura, profiteer."

Lu Twelve: "..."

Byron hissed, Lu Twelve rolled his eyes, obviously he was also one of the objects of dislike, but JAY laughed "hehehe" beside him, pointed at Sabak and said to Lu Twelve: "In Before you quit work, I was educated by him for a long time, listening to the sound of many friendly map cannons blasting in my ears..."

Lu Twelve stared at Sabak with a sullen face for a while, feeling the wonder of the Creator and the diversity of species in the world... At this moment, the blond man who had been sitting silently at the table finally seemed to be unable to stand this group of people He suddenly stood up and walked over to the black-haired young man who was staring at each other with his "subordinate".

"What's the matter, Brother Cai?" Lu Twelve turned his head and glanced at his phantom beast inexplicably, but he didn't expect that the latter just grabbed his hand, stretched out his fingertips and gently tapped the surface of his watch——

Lu Twelve was stunned for a moment, then realized that Fa Cai seemed to be reminding him of something, and quickly lowered his head to look - after arriving at Gamma A, he hadn't had time to adjust the time difference of the clock, and the clock showed that it was three o'clock in the morning on the Middle Ancient Continent of the Earth , it should be 10:30 am on Gamma A.

"It's about this time." Lu Twelve looked around in a panic, and then threw the money bag in his hand to JAY, "Look at this thing, if you lose it again, you will lose your life—I'm going to take a shower, everyone The teammates disbanded in place—oh yes, use the extra gold coins to hire a breakfast stall to get you some delicious food, see you at the entrance of the aid station lobby in 10 minutes!"

After Lu Twelve finished speaking, he left in a hurry. Fa Cai was stunned for a moment, and then followed him with calm steps.

……

There is a reason for Lu Twelve to be in such a hurry, because the material center that sells all kinds of basic supplies for the mine tunnel opens at 11:30 noon-due to the misappropriation behavior of unscrupulous developers, the entire mine of Gamma A star The basic supplies are only sold at a material supply center about 15 minutes away from their rescue station. Whenever a group of Phantom Beast workers who arrive at Gamma A star come here, the place will be overcrowded once.

What's worse, based on the information Lu Twelve got from chatting with other people on the interstellar ship, I heard that the material center has recently issued some negative news, saying that someone bought used second-hand goods—these second-hand goods It’s not bad that the previous owner returned to Earth after consummating meritorious deeds. Thinking about the recent accidents in the mine tunnel where people are being carried sideways every day, the equipment on them...

That alone makes people feel uncomfortable.

Therefore, almost all Phantom Beast staff who came to Gamma A star later reached a consensus: when buying basic materials, you must keep your eyes open to see if the equipment you get is really brand new as the merchant said—— —The reason for buying vegetables in the vegetable market is the same. If you want to buy the first wave of fresh vegetables, you can only go to the vegetable market early.

Due to the above reasons, Lu Twelve still wanted to go there and wait in line before the material center opened—in fact, there might already be a long queue there, but at least it would not be completely empty if he went there now. The options are so limited.

What's more, apart from buying basic materials today, they also need to receive some other things-because Gamma A is different from the earth's abundant water resources, the water flowing from the taps in the rescue stations is usually undrinkable, so if they want to To obtain some supplies such as drinking water, hemostatic bandages, glucose drinks, and physical nutrient solutions provided free of charge, one must also go to that place to register and apply for collection.

Speaking of which, a series of public facilities such as the mission release center, the emergency hospital, the phantom beast item selling market, and the supermarket are also next to the material center.

To put it simply, that area is simply the central area of ​​Gamma A star.

Lu Twelve packed himself up in a hurry, and rushed back to the meeting place with his teammates. At this time, everyone was already waiting there with a full meal. Lu Twelve took the fried steak from JAY and remembered I had been busy all morning and didn't eat anything. I devoured the piece of meat with almost no time to taste what it tasted like. Before going out, I swiped my ID card and exchanged for a bottle of nutrient liquid drink. I drank it and weighed it with my teammates. Take the through train leading to the material center.

The wagon was one of the older transport wagons that were fixed entirely on rails.

Because Lu Twelve and his rescue station are basically Phantom Beast workers who arrived yesterday, so everyone is flocking to the material center at this moment—the car is very crowded, and Lu Twelve suspects that if it is not for the fortune He stretched out his arms behind him to surround a small area for him, and it is very likely that he has been squeezed to the window now, unable to get out.

But now, apart from feeling that the surrounding air was a bit turbid, he could at least turn around and move his hands and feet reluctantly.

Lu Twelve turned around while thinking, feeling the top of his hair gently sweeping over Fa Cai's chin. He looked out of the window. At this time, he didn't know who was nearby, and there was a burst of body odor mixed with perfume. into his nose—

The black-haired young man frowned, and then heaved a deep sigh, because the road leading to the material center is completely open, and the surrounding scenery is authentic, except for a simple railway track that humans have dug. The surrounding environment is harsh, and it is impossible to open the window.

Star Gamma A has a special structure. When humans first landed on this planet, they were pleasantly surprised to find that this planet has an atmosphere—including the mission mining area, the air near the center of the first developed materials is also clean, and humans can freely Breathe... However, along with the development of the surface of this planet, people have a strange discovery, the air is getting thinner and thinner as the planet goes south. There is no air in the area, so that the basic buildings and vehicles on their side are completely closed in the form of artificial oxygen production.

Now the car they are riding in is also in a completely closed mode. The only function of the windows is that people sitting by the windows can twist their heads to see the alien scenery outside.

... To be precise, there is actually no scenery to see.

There is a gray area everywhere. Gamma A star is very windy today, and the yellow sand is all over the sky. Only occasionally when the rail car passes by a huge stone, a black shadow can barely be seen in the yellow sand. Blowing gravel and slapping on the car window makes a "cracking" sound, and the whole car will also make that "squeak" and "squeak" sound of being overwhelmed.

Looking out of the window, Lu Twelve always felt a strong sense of uneasiness—the shadows of the boulders hidden in the sand always gave him a feeling that they were actually monsters lurking in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to attack, because the car was also fast Moving steadily, sometimes he was dazzled, and easily had the illusion that those black shadows really moved for a moment.

"Brother Rich?"

"?"

"Do you ever feel as though those stones are moving?"

"..."

The one who answered Lu Twelve was the big hand placed between his foreheads. Obviously, at this time, Fa Cai was expressing a body language of "you are sick", so Lu Twelve could only put the big paw on his forehead with a dark face. He took it off and said without embarrassment: "I'm fine."

The words fell, and the two of them fell into silence again. After Lu Twelve looked around, he found that he was the only one who was a little nervous around - the other Phantom Beast staff, including JAY, talked and laughed freely, but Lu Twelve Twelve acted like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.

This made Lu Twelve a little concerned, so when they got out of the car, he grabbed JAY from behind and questioned it. Nervousness is always normal. The first time I left the earth was to go to Sui Hongxing, so that would be bad, okay? The world of ice and snow, except for snow, is snow. You know it’s easy for a conscious creature to be in a monotonous environment for a long time The occurrence of consciousness deviation—may also have something to do with the magnetic field of the planet itself, in short, that time I suffered from severe depression, and every day I thought about how to commit suicide so that it would not be so painful."

Lu Twelve was taken aback: "So serious?"

"It's so serious, it seems that if I lock you alone in a small dark room for several days, you will go crazy for a reason-because you are a human being, you have the ability to think and wisdom, so your sensitivity to the environment On the contrary, we are more vulnerable than other creatures. For example, if you throw a potted flower or a monkey into the dark room, it may not have such a big impact. The smarter creatures are more sensitive and weak in terms of willpower." JAY shook his head and said, turned his head, only to find that Sabak was looking at him silently at this moment, he raised his eyebrows, "Am I not right?"

Sabak was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "That's right."

JAY withdrew his gaze in satisfaction: "Three of the five people who went with me in the team suffered from snow blindness, and I was depressed. Oh, that picture shouldn't be too beautiful. There is only one in the team who often goes to alien planets to do missions. The behavior of veterans is normal... In the end, we stayed in the base for three days and there was nothing we could do. We didn't complete the mission and went back to Earth-at that time, because it was a privately issued mission, there was no such thing as a package of interstellar spaceship tickets. He even posted more than 30 gold coins upside down."

Lu Twelve: "..."

JAY: "After that time, I almost had a serious psychological shadow on alien missions, and it took me a long time to recover—there are usually not many missions to choose after reaching the blue Eudemons staff, so if you are in If there are obstacles in this area, it is best to work hard to overcome them so that you can go further in the future.”

Lu Twelve twitched the corners of his lips, but he had to admit that he felt a little better: "...It always sounds like you have a lot of experience."

"I already have a lot of experience," JAY glanced at Lu Twelve, "Including this time I came to Gamma A star, I have been to more than fifteen planets, big and small - and then summed up based on experience , the tasks that need to leave the earth are generally pits that look rich in rewards on the surface, but it just depends on whether the pit is big or small-the mining task is a big pit, and it will definitely lose money; the cleaning task is better, but don’t expect to make money. Gold coins, at best, can only cheat some guild contribution points—didn’t I tell you when I saw the news about Star Gamma A on TV?”

Lu Twelve asked: "Then you really came to Gamma A star with me?"

"Because I thought it was an official mission issued by the military this time, it might not be that tricky," JAY sighed and touched his chin, "As you can see, in addition to a free time ticket, we spent a lot of time on the way." Isn’t there enough money? It’s not a trap.”

Lu Twelve thought for a while and said, "I've already boarded the thief's ship. Wouldn't it be more thorough to jump off the ship at this time?"

"That's right, that's the reason. I always think 'I've spent so much on the flowers, now I'm just wasting the money I spent on the previous ones'..." JAY nodded seriously, "Those developers also caught us. Psychology, and then more and more pitfalls."

Lu Twelve thought about it, and then said sincerely: "Why don't we go home."

Sabak: "JAY, please shut up. On the battlefield, spreading rumors and shaking the morale of the army is a capital offense."

JAY: "..."

Lu Twelve: "..."

Byron: "Ha ha ha ha ha."

At this time, Lu Twelve and his team had already walked into the material center side by side—there was a long queue in front of the counter for buying basic supplies for the mine. I went out of the material center with JAY, and went to the next task release column to check the tasks that can be received today.

The location of task collection and cancellation is within a 10-minute walk from the material center and turn left.

It is different from the task release column outside the main building of the Eudemons Staff Guild. This time, there is no task level distribution set in the task release column of Star Gamma A. All tasks are only divided into B-level, A-level, S-level and double S-level re-division—the task bar under the double S-level is empty, the S-level has a task, the content is "cleaning", the specific content is not displayed at all, Lu Twelve tried to scan it with his ID card, the result What is displayed is a line like [Hello, your team level is not high enough to read the content of this task] appeared on the screen; there are many more tasks for B-level and A-level, and most of the seemingly powerful Phantom Beast staff have Gathered under the A-level tasks and waited to refresh and collect them. There were not many B-level tasks left, and most of them had already been collected. Lu Twelve squatted below and scanned them one by one, and found that the rest were indeed looking for The task of selling ore or mining and selling ore.

"What should I do?" Lu Twelve turned his head to look at JAY, "Should we wait and see?"

"Wait," JAY shrugged, "Now you know how sad the blue Phantom Beast staff is? You can't wait for the task at all, unless you are willing to squat under this screen 24 hours a day."

The two were whispering, at this moment, Lu Twelve felt that Fa Cai suddenly put his hand on his waist and took him into his arms. The blond man beside him unexpectedly discovered that at this moment, there was an inexplicable hostility flashing in the man's golden pupils.

There is even contempt and disgust.

Lu Twelve was taken aback for a moment, because he rarely saw Fa Cai show such eyes to ordinary passing strangers.

And at this moment, Lu Twelve was surprised to find that it was not only Fa Cai who reacted abnormally, but the noise of lively discussions around him suddenly quieted down... They exchanged glances with JAY, and the two humans raised their heads inexplicably, Then they discovered the reason for the silence of the crowd: not far in front of them, a group of people was walking slowly at this moment.

They looked like a team of Eudemons workers——

Walking in the front is a middle-aged uncle about 35 years old. His appearance is very similar to Sabak, with his upper body naked, behind him is a big knife, and his dark blue pupils are separated by a distance. From a long distance, people can feel the hostility coming to their faces.

Behind the middle-aged uncle, there are four strangely dressed humans, one of them is tall and thin, with a thin jaw and pale skin, his eyes are covered by the brim of a huge clown hat on his head, he looks a little malnourished , has a flower arm full of tattoos, and a metal spur wheel like a gear hangs around his waist.

At the same time, there was an old man in a teammate who looked like he was sitting in a wheelchair. Because his head was lowered, people could not see his face clearly; the person pushing his wheelchair was a young and beautiful woman with a slender figure. The hair is completely light blonde, and it sways gently behind her with her steps. At this moment, she is lowering her eyes and staring at the ground expressionlessly; The girl looked around at this moment, with a smile on her face, and waved hello to every Eudemons staff who met her eyes.

Those people walked under the task release column and stood firm. Amidst the silent stares, the uncle who walked in the front took out his ID card, pointed it at the S-level task column and scanned it, and then couldn't even look at it. Kandi put away the ID card in his hand, turned around and glanced at his teammates behind him, then raised his foot, walked into the task confirmation window in the building behind him, and started talking with the staff in the window.

Until the group of them confirmed that the task registration was completed, they turned and left.

Looking at their backs, the people under the task release column remained silent for about half a minute.

After a while, until their backs completely disappeared from people's sight, the people around started talking with a "buzz" as if they suddenly came to their senses!

"Why are they—"

"Ahhh, they actually came to Gamma A, too bad luck, I wouldn't have come if I had known."

"Linghua still looks so pretty."

"Enough is enough for you, that kind of femme fatale, no matter how beautiful she is, she can't be hard!"

Amidst the chaotic discussions around him, Lu Twelve felt the tense arm muscles that had to be tightened before Fa Cai wrapped around his waist suddenly relax, and then he pulled away silently... The black-haired young man who had regained his freedom was all Inexplicably, he turned his head to look at his teammates and found that he was also subtly looking at the direction in which those people left.

Lu Twelve raised his eyebrows, raised his foot and kicked JAY: "Hey, know-it-all, who are those people?"

"..." JAY turned his head numbly, stared at Lu Twelve's face for a while, and said after a while, "A bunch of bad guys."

Lu Twelve: "...What do you mean?"

JAY sighed, wiped his face: "I am now you really do not stick to the spring water, what kind of natural pollution environment did you live in the past twenty years, so that you don't know 'WL' The group's notoriety?"

Lu Twelve: "I used to be poor."

JAY: "... Being poor is not an excuse for your ignorance."

Lu Twelve: "Do you want to tell a story?"

JAY stared at his teammate with the righteous "I want to listen to the story" written all over his face, choked for a long time, sighed again, and said, "You should know that the mainstream voice in society now is advocating the relationship between human beings and illusions." Beasts coexist harmoniously and complement each other, right? That’s why all kinds of Phantom Beast competitions and related industries can be brought to the stage in a dignified manner—and awakened Phantom Beasts like Lord Shabak are even more sought after by people..."

Lu Twelve nodded: "Continue?"

JAY subconsciously turned his head to look at Fa Cai, and at this moment the latter looked back at him expressionlessly—almost subconsciously shivering, JAY took a step back, hesitated for a while before continuing: "But You can’t ask for great social harmony forever, so now that the main theme is being sung, there will always be some people living in their own independent worlds—for example, the Phantom Beast Staff Guild was originally established to promote the relationship between humans and phantom beasts. The organization that came out of a good communication environment, the result..."

"what's the result?"

"As a result, there are some unique people who can abandon the Eudemons to fight alone, and complete the task very well. At first, the appearance of this group of people was not recognized, but in the final analysis, they just did it. The task, and then complete the task, all the procedures are legal and reasonable - except that no phantom beasts are used on the way, can you say that they are wrong? No, because this is personal freedom - so about a few decades ago, phantoms The Beast Guild promulgated regulations, officially acknowledging the existence of these people—this is the 'warrior' I mentioned earlier."

Lu Twelve thought for a while, then suddenly asked, "Did the 'Warrior' appear only recently?"

JAY nodded and replied: "Yes, it has not been around for more than 100 years. It is a very new profession, and there is no way to trace the source-they just appeared inexplicably, the number is rare, and they are all elites."

Lu Twelve asked again: "Why can't I trace the source? Didn't you almost become a martial artist?"

JAY shook his head: "Now there may be some military personnel on the Phantom Beast mission field, but those people are all the same as my original intensive training purpose, amateurs, just want to better assist Phantom Beast to complete the task-but This is not the case for real 'military personnel', some people speculate that these military personnel are soldiers who have been uniformly trained by a certain organization, but no one can confirm whether this statement is true."

Lu Twelve: "After going around and around, you still didn't say who those people are."

"That's it, what's the rush?" JAY found a place and sat down, looking like he was talking a long way, and then slowly said after a pause, "The group you saw just now People, they are the real 'Warriors', the notorious team 'WonderLand', have you seen the uncle who took the lead, and the man with the flower arm behind them? Did they have the weapons on their bodies..."

Lu Twelve nodded.

JAY covered his face, and seemed to find it difficult to say in front of Fa Cai: "'Killing Sword' and 'Half Moon Wheel', they were actually taken from 'Mei' and 'Xing Ji'."

"..." Lu Twelve was silent for three seconds, as if he hadn't reacted, "What?"

"It's the ninth and tenth awakened phantom beasts that awakened in the Western Union Continent and the Middle Ancient Continent respectively. Some people suspect that they were selected because they were awakened in sequence." JAY took a deep breath, "That The uncle and the flower-armed man killed two awakened phantom beasts respectively, and obtained the phantom beast's own weapons from them respectively, and then became a mission team composed entirely of military personnel."

Lu Twelve felt that he couldn't believe his ears, he stared wide-eyed: "...Kill, kill the awakened phantom beast?"

"Yes, the whole world was shocked at that time - because the existence of the awakened Eudemons itself is known as 'individual units form an army force', so no one would have thought that a human being could be strong enough to kill an awakened Eudemons, There is no relevant law to sanction them at all. Do you think it is better for them to kill people? Or kill phantom beasts? Killing people is the death penalty, but killing phantom beasts is another way of saying it. What's more, they were not in their own continent when they committed the crime, and they were involved in a series of mainland disputes. For example, when the uncle killed Xing Ji, it was in Eastern Europe. , so in the end, I fined him a little money and let that uncle out."

"..." Lu Twelve stared at JAY, as if he had just told a series of Arabian Nights.

"Some people suspect that the existence of this team is the original product of the mysterious organization that trains military personnel," JAY said, "kill the awakened phantom beasts, seize their weapons, arm themselves, and seize limited resources—this is probably the military profession. The reason why man really exists."