Chapter 32
After Rong Yuan and his companions rescued Serinda, she got on the boat.
Because she recognized the Firebird mark on them, and then said, "You are mercenaries, right? I have a mission to entrust you. As long as you escort me back to my country, my father can give you 10 billion star coins as a reward."
"10 billion!" Pari forgot everything when he heard the number. He held Serinda's hand and shouted, "Okay, okay, no problem. Princess, please rest assured. Our Feiyan Team is the best mercenary force in the entire galaxy. We will definitely get you there safely!"
"The captain is the one who makes the decision. His words don't count." Nightwing suddenly hung down from the roof, startling Serinda. Nightwing's sinister eyes swept across the girl's face and asked Rongyuan, "Captain, what do you say?"
Everyone looked at Rong Yuan. Pari and Yisli had eager eyes, and the others were also more or less moved.
Although Star Coin is the electronic currency in the Star Network, it can be used for real goods and services transactions, and can be used by any planet that has established a Star Network. Its credit and value far exceed the real currency issued by ordinary countries. It is the real universal currency of the Milky Way Interstellar Alliance. Many countries do not recognize the currencies issued by other countries, so transactions between them are mainly in Star Coins. Take the Pichu planet where Pari was born as an example. One Star Coin can be exchanged for 300 to 500 Pichu Coins, but there is still no market for it, and many people are not willing to exchange it.
And 10 billion star coins are even enough for them to buy several habitable planets.
Rong Yuan glanced at Serinda indifferently. With the Merit Book in hand, he had very little need for money. But he was free anyway, so it would be nice to make the team members happy. In addition, he had a good impression of Serinda, so he nodded and said, "Okay."
"Wow!" Pari cheered immediately and happily breakdanced on the ground using his eight tentacles.
Yisli coughed dryly and laughed happily, but when everyone was happy, his smile was inconspicuous.
That night, after replenishing their spaceship with sufficient supplies, they flew to the Landia Empire.
In the middle of the night, Rong Yuan was reading a book when he suddenly saw a figure sneaking out of his room and into the kitchen through his mental network. He frowned, put down the book, and walked quietly to the kitchen.
——Caught a princess stealing food.
I saw the tomboy-like princess squatting in front of the refrigerator, holding a carrot as big as her head and eating it quickly, just like a hamster that had been hungry for three days and three nights.
Rong Yuan asked in surprise: "What are you doing?"
Serinda was startled and jumped three feet high from the ground. When she turned around and saw Rong Yuan, her face turned pale and she stammered, "I...I...I'm sorry, I'm hungry..."
"Aren't you a princess?" Rong Yuan asked incredulously. He had never seen a princess sneak into the kitchen to steal carrots in the middle of the night.
"The princess needs to eat too!" said Serinda.
"But didn't you have dinner?" Rong Yuan asked.
"I'm not full!" Serinda said confidently.
In the end, Serinda took the carrot back to her room and ate it.
The next day, Rong Yuan asked the chef on the spaceship, Barabi, to prepare a lot of food and put it in front of Serinda, so that she could eat as much as she wanted. So Serinda ate three plates of fried noodles, five dishes, ten servings of dessert, and a large plate of fruit. After finishing the meal, she patted her still flat stomach with satisfaction and sighed, "Ah, I'm finally full."
Everyone looked at her thin body and wondered where all the food had gone.
"Is it delicious?" Balabi handed her a cup of fruit tea and asked with a smile.
"Delicious!" Serinda gave him a big smile.
Balabi was very happy and promised: "I will prepare a whole fish feast for you at noon, using a whole crab whale. It will be so delicious that you will swallow your tongue."
"Really? That's awesome!!!"
"Can you finish it?"
"No problem, sure!"
Amirida asked her worriedly, "Do you really not need to take a digestive pill or something ?"
“No need!” Serinda patted her belly again and said regretfully, “Actually, I think I can eat another chicken. But overeating is not good for your health, so forget it.”
Amirida was speechless.
Pari whispered, "This is the first time I've seen a princess who eats so much."
Isli stared at Serinda intently and said with a smile, "She's very cute."
Rong Yuan, who had been sitting aside reading a book as if it had nothing to do with him, suddenly looked at him with understanding in his eyes.
Bai Le, with a pot of chive leaves on his head, tiptoed to a window and looked inside secretly.
The tough guy A happened to pass by and saw him like this. He asked speechlessly: "Captain, what are you doing?"
"Shh——" Bai Le quickly raised a finger to signal him to be quiet, then squatted down and took a look inside. Seeing that Rong Yuan didn't seem to be alarmed, he felt relieved, turned around and waved, but seeing that the tough guy A didn't move, he glared at him and waved his hands vigorously.
The tough guy had no choice but to pull up his pants and squat beside him, praying that no one saw it.
Bai Le whispered: "Let me see what he is doing?"
The tough guy A thought: [Do I need to read this?] But under Bai Le's stare, he had to stick his head out to take a look, and then said, "I'm reading a book."
"Really? He's reading a book, right? Am I seeing things correctly?" Bai Le asked several times. After getting confirmation from the tough guy A, he asked again, "Take a look. What book is he reading?"
As long as the tough guy A stretched his head out again, squinted his eyes and took a closer look, he said: "It's a white cover, no words, only a strange pattern."
"It is true. I was not mistaken." Bai Le touched his chin and said solemnly, "There is a problem. There is definitely a problem with this matter."
Tough Man A sighed and said, "Mr. Rong is reading a book, what's the problem with that?"
"Hey, you don't understand." Bai Le waved his hands and said, "When I followed him before, he was holding that book and reading it all day... After so many years, he is still reading it... Suspicious, suspicious, too suspicious."
Tough Man A said, "What's suspicious? Maybe he particularly likes that book?"
"That guy has a photographic memory. What kind of book could he be interested in... Wait, let me calculate." Bai Le counted on his fingers, then said uncertainly: "One hundred... one hundred and six years? At least one hundred and six years."
"So? What do you suspect?" The tough guy A became a little interested.
"I think..." Bai Le announced earnestly and with hidden excitement: "That book is not a book... It must be a photo album of the most beautiful and lovely superstar in the entire galaxy - Miss Ke Ke!"
"...write...a photo album?" Tough Man A was dumbfounded.
"Yes, it must be! Apart from Miss Keke's photo album, what else can a man look at for more than a hundred years?" Bai Le said confidently.
"What you said... seems to be right..." Tough Man A actually thought what he said made sense. It's true that Mr. Rong is very strong, but just like Miss Ke Ke will definitely poop, it's not surprising that Mr. Rong would secretly chase stars!
Thinking of this way, the unattainable, powerful, god-like man in the story didn't seem so far away, and he was actually a little cute.
"Yeah, yeah, you think so too, right?" Bai Le's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he drooled as he said, "Maybe it's... that kind of... that kind of photo album!"
"The kind... the kind without clothes?" The tough guy A has completely abandoned his IQ.
"Yes!" Bai Le said firmly.
The tough guy A imagined it... and then immediately covered his nose. No, his nose was going to bleed!
"Want to see it?"
"Yes!" The two nodded in unison, and Bai Le encouraged, "Why don't we find a chance to steal it out and have a look?"
"Steal..." The tough guy A smiled foolishly, then thought of Rong Yuan's face, shuddered, and his IQ returned instantly. He asked in confusion: "Who was talking just now?"
The two looked at each other, suddenly feeling something was wrong, and then slowly, slowly raised their heads -
Rong Yuan was lying on the window frame, looking down at the two of them with a smile.
Bai Le screamed and ran away. The tough guy A, who was abandoned because he was a beat slower in reaction, stood up in embarrassment and laughed dryly: "Haha, haha, um, Mr. Rong, I'm sorry to bother you... Haha, you are busy, you are busy, I'll leave first, haha..." Then he slipped away as fast as a rabbit.
Rong Yuan actually didn't feel offended, nor was he really angry. The two people's reactions made him laugh and cry. He glanced at the book in his hand and put it away.
This book is certainly not a photo album, but even if Bai Le wanted to read it, Rong Yuan would never let him see it.
Because this is "unreal".
The Merit Mall in the Merit Book can exchange for any item, even items that violate scientific principles and exist only in fantasy. This book is the "Improvisational Book" that Rongyuan exchanged from the mall in the past. Every time you open it, you can see completely different content. If you haven't finished reading and don't want the content to be refreshed, you should insert a bookmark that comes with the book into the place you have read, so that the next time you open it, you will see the same content.
The contents of the improvisation book are all-encompassing. Sometimes you can see black technology that is far beyond the current level of civilization development, sometimes it is a vulgar third-rate novel, sometimes it is a completely incomprehensible "Magic Pattern Drawing Explanation", and sometimes it is "A Collection of 108 Scams". What content appears is completely based on luck. Therefore, even after so many years, Rong Yuan never knows what kind of text he will see before opening it, and his heart is always full of curiosity and expectation.
Such a book certainly does not exist in the real world.
In the "Book of Merits", there is a rule that if a non-contractor uses merit goods that exceed the technological level of this world, he will be wiped out by the power of the rules.
Rong Yuan had verified this rule repeatedly on many villains before he had a rough idea of its effectiveness mechanism.
In other words, if Rong Yuan redeemed bread from the Merit Mall, which is something that exists in the real world, then other people like Bai Le could eat it, and it would be no different from eating ordinary bread, and the taste would be top-notch! But if Rong Yuan redeemed something unscientific like the Marrow Cleansing Pill, Bai Le would die immediately after eating it, but if he accidentally touched it, it would be fine.
For impromptu books like this, the boundary between "touching" and "using" is very vague. Does touching or glancing at it count as using it? The judgment of the Book of Merits is quite idealistic. If you touch it with a clear will and a clear purpose, it will be erased; if you touch it accidentally and unintentionally, it will not be judged as "using the item", so it will be fine.
However, just in case, Rong Yuan carefully put away all the surreal items exchanged in the mall - he had a silver ring on his hand, which was the legendary "Na Ring", which means "to put Mount Sumeru in a mustard seed", and can hold many items in a small space. However, the exchange price of items involving space in the Merit Mall is extremely expensive, and one cubic meter requires 100 million merit points. Many years ago, Rong Yuan used up all the merit points he had accumulated for a long time, and then exchanged for this Na Ring with a space of only 100 cubic meters, which was specially used to hold those surreal exchange items that were inconvenient for others to see and touch. In order to prevent any unexpected situations, there are also a small amount of daily necessities in it.
Not long after he put away the book, Rong Yuan saw the tough guy A who had just hurried away come back. He said, "Mr. Rong, I just received news that Miss Mia and Miss Zhihuo had a conflict with the people from the Baihua Society."
Because of Rong Yuan's presence, everyone in the small building was treated specially. Mia got what she wanted and asked the people of Howling to post big messages at all the tunnel entrances and the main traffic arteries in the central city, ensuring that Mi Dong would see them as soon as he entered the city. When she had nothing to do, she often went downstairs to take care of the children. Zhihuo always went with her in order to leave a good impression on Rong Yuan. On this day, because the herbs were used up, the two went to the street to buy them together.
Speaking of which, the relationship between women is always very delicate. Obviously, the two of them do not trust each other, and they are a little bit dissatisfied with each other, and they often have disagreements, but this does not prevent them from going shopping hand in hand, talking and laughing, and they look very harmonious.
Huo Xiao sent a few people to follow them. In addition to helping carry things, they also served as a deterrent and warning - when the shop owners and passers-by saw their group from afar, they knew that the people from the small building were out again, so everyone was very respectful and humble to them. Not only were the things they bought from them reasonably priced, but they would occasionally even give them discounts, for fear that they would accidentally anger the person in the small building and a silver light would fly from the sky and cut their necks.
All in all, although the person accompanying them was not their favorite best friend, Mia and Zhihuo's shopping trip was still very enjoyable, until an accident happened and a person covered in blood fell in front of them.
