Sylvia bit her lips and acted tough. “I have friends; they won’t forgive you.”
“What kind of mercenary group would want a kid like you? The boy scouts? Ha, I will kill all of your friends that come,” the galactic pirate captain sneered. “And for you… although you’re a little too young, you’re quite pretty. I guess a mercenary group won’t be able to pay a high ransom, so you can use your body to pay for it…”
The eyes of all the galactic pirates sparkled as they laughed loudly. They sized Sylvia’s face and body up pitilessly.
“Don’t do this…” Sylvia immediately became nervous.
The boy’s face changed dramatically. Suddenly, he found the courage from somewhere and stepped before Sylvia. Just as he was about to speak while shivering, the galactic pirates started loudly discussing.
“I want her leg. Its texture is the best!”
“Then I want her butt. I like fats!”
“Ears are crispy. It’s best to cut them off and eat them raw.”
Sylvia froze. She could not control the panic in her heart and yelled, “Hey, is this what you mean by paying with my body‽”
The galactic pirate heard that and was confused.
“Of course, we meant eating you, what else?”
Sylvia was puzzled, mumbling, “Why do I suddenly not really want to kill all of them?”
Beep beep beep!
This time, a sound came out of Sylvia’s wrist. The people looked over, and Sylvia gave a proud smile, the earlier panic having completely disappeared. She had been stalling for time.
She waved her wrist and said in a playful tone, “This is a GPS.”
Just as she finished her words…
Boom!
A thunderous noise exploded beside them, and the ship shook violently. The galactic pirates almost all fell onto the ground. They hastily looked in the direction where the loud noise had come from.
A hole had been blasted through the tunnel dozens of meters away, filling it with dust and fog.
A few people appeared in the fog and stepped onto this spaceship.
The foremost person walked out of the fog first. He was wearing a black windbreaker, his hands were behind his back, and his eyes were flickering with a deep light that looked like the starry sky. A natural pressure emanated from his body that sent shivers down the galactic pirates’ spines.
This feeling became stronger as the man walked closer. He stared at the galactic pirate captain, and the galactic pirate captain’s legs felt soft like he was being stared at by a monster that was about to devour him.
Actually, Han Xiao only looked at him casually. The pressure came from his far superior level.
“I heard you have a problem with my mercenary group?”
Chapter 467 - Go Create Miracles, Young Teen
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Clank clank clank!
With some simple, straightforward punches, Herlous beat up these galactic pirates easily. He tied them together and made a wailing human mountain.
It was a piece of cake for Herlous to defeat such weak galactic pirates; the main difficulty of rescuing the hostage had been locating the stealthy galactic pirate spaceship. Hence, Han Xiao had gotten Sylvia to disguise as a hostage to get captured while wearing a locator so that they could track this spaceship’s location and board it. Han Xiao had borrowed one of the employer’s battleships, which had breached the tail of the galactic pirate spaceship.
Also, this was the first time Sylvia took part in a mission. It was a test for her. The lessons that Han Xiao had planned for her filled up her schedule. After she awakened Super-Genes, other than learning knowledge, she had also gone through all sorts of battle technique training. Although Sylvia had only trained for two months, she had a lot of potential and had progressed very quickly. Furthermore, she was very talented in battle. She did not get nervous in battle but became calmer instead, which surprised even Sylvia herself. She did not know that she could stay so calm in the face of danger.
Of course, if Sylvia did not have potential, Han Xiao would not have spent his energy to train her.
“You guys let the hostages out,” Han Xiao ordered the others. “I will go to set the course and make this ship head back toward where it came from. We can complete the mission there.”
This time, Sylvia trotted toward Han Xiao and asked with an eager expression, “How did I do?”
Han Xiao rubbed his chin and said, “Acceptable, barely a pass. What, do you think there’s anything worth complimenting?”
Sylvia curled her lips in disappointment. “Oh.”
“Black Star, be more lenient to the youngsters,” Herlous said and smiled at Sylvia. “You did quite well. When I was your age, I was not… wait, I was much stronger than you.”
Sylvia ground her teeth. “You’re really good at comforting people.”
“Don’t listen to them.” Feidin smiled gently. “You progressed very quickly, and we all saw it.”
“Shut up!” Sylvia became furious as soon as she heard Feidin speak. She stared at Feidin angrily. Every time she saw this guy, she felt that life was unfair. She had awakened earlier than him, but Feidin’s growth speed was like a rocket that soared to Grade C smoothly with ease as he sang and meditated, unlike Sylvia, who lived in the abyss of studies.
Comparison was the thief of joy!
Feidin did not get mad; he gave a gentle smile and did not say any more.
He had followed Han Xiao on his missions for two months. In this period, Chen Xing had tried many times to take back control of his body, but she had been stopped by Feidin time after time. As Feidin’s Psychic power rapidly became stronger, Chen Xing’s threat gradually became smaller. Feidin’s plan was to borrow Chen Xing’s memory and make himself stronger; the time when he could completely suppress Chen Xing was probably the time that he would leave.
However, Feidin’s personality was very tender; he did not like fighting and almost never got angry. He did not want what happened to him to happen to Chen Xing as he knew how terrible it felt. Therefore, Feidin communicated with Chen Xing many times in his mind, hoping that he could make her give up the meaningless resistance. Unfortunately, Chen Xing was very firm and absolutely unwilling to compromise. Feidin did not give up and still kept up the habit of communicating with Chen Xing every day.
The Godoran boy stared at Han Xiao and the others. When he thought that he had no way out, those mercenaries had come out of nowhere and defeated the galactic pirates. He only came to after a very long time. He looked at Sylvia’s back, mustered the courage, and walked to her. “M—my name is Naru. Thank you for saving me. Are you the mercenaries hired by my father?”
The people paused the casual chat and looked at him. Naru panicked from Sylvia’s glance. He did not even know where to put his hands.
“I—I want to know your names…”
Naru stuttered.
Han Xiao patted Sylvia’s head, chucked, and said, “This kid likes you.”
With the truth being exposed, Naru completely panicked. “I don’t!”
Han Xiao raised his eyebrows and said, “Oh, looks like he dislikes you.”
“N—no, I don’t dislike…” Naru could not form a complete sentence.
Sylvia rolled her eyes at Han Xiao and extended her hand. “My name is Sylvia.”
Naru hesitated, then cautiously grabbed Sylvia’s fingertip. The moment their fingers touched, Naru’s face became orange—this was Godoran’s face color when they blushed, very scientific and logical.
Herlous sighed and said, “Being young is so great.”
Han Xiao took out a cigarette-shaped candy from the snack bag in Aroshia’s hands and put it into his mouth. He had been trying to quit smoking, so he could only eat snacks to kill the boredom. He tutted and pondered. “If I complain to the employer that his son flirted with my lovely apprentice, I should be able to blackmail him for some money.”
“… You don’t have to say it out lo
ud the next time you’re thinking of a plan like this.” Sylvia turned around angrily.
…
All the hostages were rescued, and Han Xiao had set the course. Not long after, they returned to the planet where the employer was at. The guards and the families of the hostages were waiting at the dock. The rescued hostages quickly got off the spaceship and reunited with their families.
A police officer approached Han Xiao and expressed his gratitude to Han Xiao for dealing with the kidnappers. As the people involved were mostly people in financial groups, this was an important matter to them.
Han Xiao passed the captured galactic pirates and the spaceship to the police department as agreed; this way, the mission completion rate would be increased. After the officers walked away, Naru and a middle-aged man came to Han Xiao. The middle-aged man had an air of someone in a high place, but he was very friendly when facing Han Xiao. After he expressed his appreciation, he paid the reward.
This middle-aged man was Naru’s father, the head of a Godoran financial group, so the promised reward were, of course, not little. At the same time, he was also the one that had issued the mission. After Han Xiao got the 85,000 Enas, the interface notified him that the mission had been completed.
All hostages were rescued, the galactic pirates were captured alive, and the spaceship was handed over. A perfect completion rate, so a Random Reward will certainly be given, Han Xiao thought. He looked at the interface and saw the notification of him getting a new chance to receive a [Random Reward]. He did not use it straight away and saved it in the interface. He had already saved four Random Reward chances.
In those two months, he had done more than ten missions. He had gotten a Random Reward chance from more than eighty percent of those missions. At the start, he had used them up as soon as he got them. He had gotten Attribute Points, experience, Potential Points, and others. Not only did he not get what he wanted, he also got a bunch of trash. Han Xiao had grown quite frustrated, so he had started saving them.
The single draw was not dependable; miracles would only occur in consecutive draws.
Han Xiao did not stay for long after submitting the mission. He took the others back to the ship. The thruster shot out fire, and the spaceship disappeared into the sky.
Naru looked up and stared in the direction that the spaceship had left. He shook his father’s arm and said, “Dad, I want to ask something from you.”
“What?”
“I… I want to hire this mercenary group as the private guard of our house,” Naru said bravely. He could not forget about Sylvia.
“It’s impossible.”
Naru became nervous. “Then give them more money. Being our guard is at least safer than being mercenaries. As long as the pay is enough, they definitely will agree.”
The middle-aged man shook his head with a bitter smile. “It’s not about money. Although Black Star is a mercenary, our family is too tiny compared to his background. We have no chance of snatching him from Ames.”
Chapter 468 - The Four Consecutive Draws of Glory
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
On the spaceship, everyone was doing their own thing. They had already gotten used to this lifestyle over those two months.
Han Xiao went back to his room alone, opened the interface, and rubbed his hands together.
“Four chances, four consecutive draws, don’t disappoint me again.”
After failing so many times, he was already very calm about it. As a Mechanic, he believed in making up for quality with quantity.
Beep beep beep!
Just as he was about to start using the Random Reward, his communicator suddenly rang. He received a communication.
“Who is it‽”
The ceremonial feeling was interrupted, so a hint of displeasure leaked into Han Xiao’s tone.
“It’s me, Nereja. Do you still remember me?”
Looking at the Godoran on the screen, Han Xiao recognized him straight away. “Oh, you’re that green… ahem, I’m happy to see you. This seems to be the first time you’ve contacted me since what happened last time. What is this about? Are you hiring me again?”
“No, I’m here to relay a message.” Nereja smiled and said, “Do you know someone called Kerlodd? He was my classmate in the Observer Training Class. He contacted me a few days ago and said that his Observer ID was used by someone else, somewhere else, which happened to be near us. I mentioned you when I chatted with him. When he heard your name, his reaction was a little… er, extreme. He seems to want you to pay him back some money.”
Han Xiao understood what had happened. He had entered Kerlodd’s ID on the system of the missing spaceship. The radiation storm had blocked the signal at that time, but when he brought the system core back to the space station, the people there had naturally checked the logs and noticed that access attempt.
Kerlodd was the Godora Observer who had been sent to investigate Planet Aquamarine and subsequently captured by Han Xiao.
Han Xiao nodded. “Oh, we are very good friends. How’s that guy? Send him my regards.”
Nereja’s expression was a little strange.
“… Are you sure you are friends? He told me to say, ‘Black Star, don’t use my ID again! When are you going to pay back the money you blackmailed from me? You’re already a renowned mercenary. Are you really this petty about a few hundred Enas?'”
“Hehe, he still loves to joke as always,” Han Xiao said. “Our friendship was created through life and death. How can that be measured by money?”
Han Xiao had shown mercy to Kerlodd back then and did not take his life. Was that not a friendship created through life and death?
Speaking of which, he had kept his word and let Kerlodd go back then to have a channel of contacting Godora. He did not expect himself to join Floating Dragon Island afterward. Nonetheless, Kerlodd was still useful.
I told Kerlodd to pay attention to the abnormalities on Planet Aquamarine. I wonder if they sent someone else to investigate. Maybe this will lead to changes in the Version 2.0 storyline… Should be good changes, Han Xiao thought.
“Alright, you tell him that I got the message, and I’m not going to pay him back.”
“Okay then…” Nereja gave a bitter smile. He suddenly recalled something and said, “By the way, we had a personnel transfer not long ago. The original station chief was transferred away, and the deputy station chief took over the space station. It’s really hard to figure out what the higher-ups are thinking. Anyway, it’s a good thing. The deputy station chief is much better than the original station chief. The station chief discovered that I was the one who hired you and gave me a penalty, such an awful guy.”
Han Xiao raised his brow and said, “The station chief? I don’t have a problem with him—he’s a good man. On the contrary, the deputy station chief is a very slippery guy. If he did not have a motive, why did he mention an unsolved internal matter to a mercenary that he had just met?
“Furthermore, the rescued Observers all rooted for you. Who would expose you? Your opinion of the station chief now means that the deputy station chief’s act of transferring him was effective. Nonetheless, a good man might not be a useful man. Even though the deputy station chief did not mean well, without him, your wife and those missing Observers would not have been saved. Hence, seeing the results, maybe you won’t regret being used.”
Actually, the person that gave out the daily missions that rewarded Interstellar Beast Dungeon Crystals was exactly the deputy station chief who later became the station chief. He ordered the players to deal with some internal affairs and quickly improved his performance. If it was the original station chief, he definitely would not have let outsiders interfere with their internal affairs.
“What you said seems to make some sense. After the station chief was transferred away, the deputy station chief looked very happy.”
Nereja was dazed for a moment and looked like he had something on his mind. He then sighed and sa
id, “Sigh, speaking of which, the old station chief only followed the regulations. Although he was a little pedantic, he was once a military officer after all, so it’s understandable.
“Anyway, I still like the deputy station chief a little more. If everything was done following the rules, the world would not only have that three Universal Civilizations now, and the war would still be going on. The other civilizations would have no choice but to become vassals, or they would be destroyed by the flames of war…
“Sigh, between hypocrisy and war, I would choose the former, and most people would probably do the same. Although I don’t know much, I can guess that the Black Forest Age of the exploration history was definitely hell. The peaceful Galaxy Calendar age now was not achieved with ease…”
“Got it, got it. I have something to do, bye.” Han Xiao decisively closed the communication. He opened the interface again and exhaled.
Let’s begin…
Beep beep beep!
At this time, the communicator rang again.
Interrupted again, Han Xiao was boiling.
Can’t I do my consecutive draws peacefully‽ The luck that I gathered is vanishing!
“Who the hell… oh, Ames, hi, are you well? What is it?”
To Han Xiao’s surprise, the alluring and sexy Dragon Emperor appeared on the screen. Ames had never contacted him before, so why did she suddenly call him?
“Black Star, I need you.” Ames’ expression was a little strange.
Han Xiao’s mouth twitched. “Pardon me, but what kind of need are you talking about?”
“I found my teacher’s whereabouts. He came to the Shattered Star Ring. Black Star, you saw what he looked like personally. Accompany me to look for him.” Ames’ tone was assertive.
“Okay…” Han Xiao held his forehead. “When?”
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