Chapter 58 Travel
The time goes back to ten hours ago, when Jin Yang had just fallen into a coma.
Rong Yuan piloted the Rain Shuttle and stayed high in the sky, watching the people on the rescue boat rescue Jin Yang and others. He only left after confirming that there was no problem with their identities.
This time he was much more relaxed, and ordered the rain shuttle to slow down and fly back to city A. The aircraft passed through large groups of snow-white clouds. From a distance, the clouds seemed as thick as land. Some were piled up, some were entangled like silk, some were like flying and circling ribbons, and some were like palaces, waves, and beasts. Rong Yuan suddenly felt playful and ordered the rain shuttle to dive into the clouds. He saw only large patches of milky white mist around him, and sometimes there were small electric currents surrounding the surface of the rain shuttle.
Afterwards, the aircraft stretched into the stratosphere. From time to time, a plane flew past. When it was close, one could see the passengers inside through the small windows of the plane. Some people were leaning on the windows to look out - they naturally couldn't see the invisible rain shuttles, but Rong Yuan looked at them and felt that it was very interesting to see these people at this location and from this angle. When he lowered his head again, he could see the rolling sea of clouds and the undulating waves, which made one want to dive in and be a surfer.
Rong Yuan looked for a long time, until night fell and it became too dark to see clearly, and he reluctantly withdrew his gaze. He felt a little excited for some reason, and didn't want to sleep or go back to the ground, so he asked Wandou to take out the "Book of Merits" to see the changes in merits in the past 24 hours.
First, the new rules.
The original content of the twelfth rule was: If a person's negative merits reach between 10,000 and 100,000, he will be given the title of "Extremely Evil" and his life value will be reduced to one point. If the contractor punishes him in any way, he can obtain positive merits equal to his negative merits.
Now it has been expanded to become:
[Rule 12: Evildoers with negative merits between 10,000 and 100,000 will be given the title of "Extremely Evil"; between 100,000 and 1 million, they will be given the title of "Full of Evil"; between 1 million and 100 million, they will be given the title of "Heinous Sins", and their life value will be reduced to one point. The contractor can obtain positive merits equal to their negative merits by punishing them in any way.]
Rong Yuan then realized that the rules of the "Book of Merits" actually stated that half of it should be kept and the other half should be retained. It seemed that even the rules that had already appeared were not necessarily complete.
[Rule 13: Contractors who punish evildoers can obtain corresponding 1, 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000 points of penalty points. Penalty points can be used to open special functions such as lucky draws, upgrades, discounts, and debt offsets in the Merit Mall.]
On the Merit Mall page, a large lucky draw wheel appears. Ten penalty points can be used to draw a prize. The prizes are random. However, unlike the real-life lottery, none of these random prizes are garbage. The lowest value in the mall also requires 5,000 merits to redeem. If you are lucky enough, you may draw a product worth hundreds of millions of merits. Some redemption items that are blocked in the case of negative merits also have a certain chance to appear. The products in the large wheel will be replaced every 24 hours. If you can't wait, you can also replace it once a penalty point is released.
Upgrading is to upgrade the goods or abilities that have been exchanged. The higher the level, the higher the penalty value. However, Rong Yuan does not have such a need for the time being.
Discounts are available for any product. 20 points of penalty points can get a 10% discount, 50 points can get a 20% discount, 100 points can get a 30% discount, 200 points can get a 40% discount, and 500 points can get a 50% discount. The maximum discount is half price, and there is no more discount. How much merit points can be left in the end depends on the value of the product itself.
Offsetting negative merit means offsetting the existing negative merit of the contractor. One penalty value can offset 100,000 negative merits.
Rong Yuan used the aircraft to destroy the four armed groups of Mura, Wild Wolf, Night Owl, and Rhino, and finally obtained 303 points of punishment points and 5.26 million merit points. Among them, Mura alone contributed 1.37 million merit points and 100 points of punishment points, and there were hundreds of other small and large shrimps.
In addition, when the explosion occurred, a total of nearly 50,000 points were deducted for [Intentional Murder]. Among them, a few people were deducted a lot. Rong Yuan guessed that they might be undercover agents, passers-by who happened to be within the attack range, or just one or two good eggs among a bunch of bad guys. However, before he took action, he had anticipated this result - whether it was the merit points deducted, the hatred and sins he had to bear for this, or the price he might have to pay for this in the future, he had already realized it and had no regrets.
At the same time, a new rule appeared in the Merit Book: [Rule 14: If the contractor takes the life of a person/object with positive merit value, the heavenly punishment function will be activated. If the contractor kills ten innocent people, he will be struck by a thunderbolt. For every ten more people, the power of the thunderbolt will double.]
This rule appeared not long after Rong Yuan bombarded the Mura arsenal. It was thought that people with positive merits were implicated and died. But once the explosion started, it was impossible to stop. After a series of explosions, the number of deaths of people with positive merits in the merit record quickly increased to nine. Only one more person was left, and Rong Yuan would experience what it was like to be roasted on the outside by lightning. In the subsequent battles, Rong Yuan was very careful, for fear of killing another person who should not die.
It would be great if we could directly distinguish between good and evil before taking action.
Rong Yuan's total merit points now totaled nearly 6.7 million, so he could naturally redeem a lot more items. In the [Special Items] column of the Spirit Pea he had exchanged, there were several more items.
[Spiritual Smell] of fifty thousand merits is a special potion. When you spray it in your nose, when people with a lot of merits get close to you, you can smell a fresh and sweet fragrance like flowers blooming and green grass after the rain. If there are people with a lot of negative merits nearby, you will smell a foul odor that is unbearable.
Rong Yuan rejected it immediately. If he sprayed this potion, would he be able to live well among people in the future? If there were good and bad people around him, what would he smell? A world of ice and fire, both stinky and fragrant?
Then there is [Diligent Listening], which is worth 100,000 merits. It is an invisible headset that can be placed in the ear. Wearing this headset, one can hear the cries for help from people around, which can help the contractor find the person to help more smoothly. But Rong Yuan thought about it and shook his head to reject it. The "Book of Merits" has an invisible rule. If people around need help but the contractor does not know, there will be no deduction for not lending a hand. But if it has been discovered but ignored, then the corresponding merit will be deducted. Wearing it, if there is a baby nearby who is hungry, thirsty, or peed, someone has a quarrel with his or her boyfriend or girlfriend, or someone has lost his or her wallet, does he or she have to spend time and energy to help?
A similar function is the [Heavenly Eye] with 150,000 merits, which is a pair of contact lenses with similar functions to scanning glasses, but this pair of lenses displays the merits of the people in the field of vision. Rong Yuan saw its function and couldn't help but be moved.
——Wouldn't it be that by wearing these glasses, he could directly tell the good and evil of passers-by? Then, if he found a person with a lot of negative merit, wouldn't he be able to quickly gain a lot of merit by punishing him?
After thinking for a while, Rong Yuan exchanged for the [Sky Eye]. This kind of contact lens is as thin as a cicada's wing and completely transparent. On the surface, it looks no different from real contact lenses. After putting it on, it melts into the eyes like water. Rong Yuan blinked and couldn't even feel its existence. There was no one else around, so he had no way to verify the function of the [Sky Eye].
And he used all of the 303 points of penalty points to offset the negative merits. In an instant, the original 178.5 million negative merits were reduced to 30.3 million.
Rong Yuan once confidently told Wandou that he would offset all negative merits within 20 years, but when he said that, he actually knew how difficult it was to do so. The more merits he gained, the more things he would do, and correspondingly, it would be easier for him to attract the attention and suspicion of others. There would be more and more people like Ouyang Rui who would persist in tracking down his identity, and they would become stronger and stronger. In order to cope with the various difficulties that would follow, the places where merits would be spent would only increase, not decrease. This was a vicious cycle, and to survive in this cycle, it was impossible for him to accumulate all the merits to offset the negative values. The appearance of the penalty value made him feel for the first time that he might be able to completely get rid of this debt in a shorter time.
After all, there are many people in this world who are as sinful as Mura. However, most people who have a lot of negative merits are powerful people like Mura. Although Rong Yuan has a merit book in hand, he can exchange it for a lot of magical weapons that surpass modern technology and technology at any time. If he wants, he can kill anyone in the world, but it is easy to hurt innocent people and may cause panic and hostility around the world. No matter how strong a person is, he can't go against the whole world.
“Pu la pu la pu la…”
A series of flapping sounds of papers interrupted Rong Yuan's thoughts. He looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was the paper crane that delivered the message that had escaped from his pocket at some point and was flapping its little wings hard against the wall of Yusuo's cabin.
Now it was no longer needed to lead the way. If others saw this moving paper crane, it would definitely cause unnecessary trouble. Rong Yuan grabbed the paper crane, tore it into pieces, and threw it into a minimalist trash can at hand. He pressed the button next to it, and the lid of the trash can closed and sank down, then the bottom opened, and the shredded paper was blown away by the strong airflow outside the aircraft.
With this interruption, Rong Yuan lost interest in continuing to look at the Merit Book. He closed the Merit Book and threw it to Wandou, then laid down with his hands behind his head, his eyes naturally turning to the sky.
In this place, there is no atmosphere, nor the lights that never turn on in the city. The stars are so dense and numerous, and so bright that it is frightening. The sky is full of stars, and the whole sky seems to be bright. It looks so close that it seems to cover people's heads. Looking closely, the light of these stars is not pure white, but a rainbow color refracted by a lens, some are blue, some are red, and each star is surrounded by star rays, which are more dazzling than any jewels and diamonds on the earth.
Rong Yuan was so absorbed in his thoughts that he was speechless for a moment. At this moment, he forgot all about the killing, the thunder, and the Book of Merits. The magnificence and beauty of the universe and the starry sky completely occupied his mind. Compared with the wonders of nature, what are all the beautiful scenery in the world?
After a long time, Pea's voice suddenly came over, saying, "We have arrived over City A and are preparing to land."
"No, wait a minute." Rong Yuan stopped him immediately. He didn't want to go back to the smoky city so soon... No, he almost didn't want to go back to the earth and rushed into the boundless universe. If it weren't for the fact that Yusuo didn't have such a function... Wait a minute !
"Pea!" Rong Yuan suddenly stared at Pea with shining eyes.
Frightened by the strange light shining in his eyes, Pea asked hesitantly, "...What's wrong?"
"I remember that the speed of the rain shuttle can reach 20 kilometers per second, which is faster than the third cosmic speed of the earth, right? It can also withstand ultra-high and ultra-low temperatures, and is also radiation-proof, right?"
"...Yes." Pea was confused. Didn't he know all this before the exchange?
"It can travel in a vacuum, right?"
"right."
The power of the Rain Shuttle comes from the Originium inside it, unlike the internal combustion engine of a car which needs oxygen, so it makes no difference whether it is in a vacuum or in a completely weightless environment... No, there is a difference. In a vacuum, there is no atmospheric resistance, so the acceleration time of the Rain Shuttle will be shorter and the speed will be faster. In fact, in the atmosphere, the speed of the Rain Shuttle cannot reach 20 kilometers per second. This maximum speed originally refers to the speed in a vacuum environment.
Rong Yuan smiled brightly, as if he had never done so before. He said, "At this kid's speed, he can reach the moon in five or six hours at most. So Pea, let's go on a hiking trip!"
——Calling the Yusuo aircraft "this kid" in such an intimate tone was enough to prove how expectant and excited he was at the moment.
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