Volume 2: The Undersea City Chapter 50 Benson's Conditions
"Are you planning to break the contract?" Ke Lan stepped forward and looked the other person in the eye. "Although this is your transport ship, according to the rules of the Ark, since you have already received the money, you have no right to refuse us from boarding."
"Heh." Benson sneered. "Please figure out who broke the contract first. We agreed before that we would only take four people. I certainly won't refuse you from boarding, but there are only four places. You decide for yourselves."
Benson turned and walked towards the transport ship, but after taking only two steps, he suddenly turned around and said, "Oh, by the way, I do have a good solution. Although we have only agreed to let four of you on board, according to the rules of the industry, each of you can also carry two cubic meters of equipment weighing no more than one ton. If any of you are willing to use yourself as 'equipment' and squat in the cargo hold, I wouldn't mind."
"What do you mean?!" Zhuo Ligetu stared at Benson angrily, his two huge fists clenched tightly, and the joints even made a crisp sound like frying beans.
"That's what I mean, isn't it? I'm just thinking about you. I also want to give you a gentle reminder - in high altitude environments, it's best to keep those 'equipment' warm , and bring an oxygen cylinder with you, otherwise you'll be turned into three popsicles when you reach your destination, hahahaha!"
"You name your price." Ke Lan said after a moment of silence.
"What did you say? I didn't hear you clearly." Benson pretended to dig his ear with his little finger.
"If you bring three more people, just name the price." Ke Lan said word by word, "But I have to remind you that if you plan to ask for an exorbitant price, you will still violate the laws of the Ark. If I remember correctly, it should be Articles 7, 8, and 14 of Chapter 2 of the Price Law."
"Damn... Ke Lan, you even know this?" The Hound muttered in a very low voice behind him.
"As for money... to be honest, we don't lack it that much..." Benson pulled the corner of his mouth and showed an arrogant smile, "We need information, information related to the underwater city."
Ke Lan shook his head and said, "The information we obtained is similar to what you know. I'm afraid you won't be interested in these things."
"No, no, no, that's not what I'm talking about." Benson shook his head even more vigorously than Ke Lan. "I mean, I want the first-hand intelligence from your field exploration, including the entire video and measured data, as well as all the specimens obtained underwater. We want a copy."
"Are you planning to make us serve as pawns for your people?"
"You think so, right? Don't you plan to go in the water? Or... are you spending so much money just to go on vacation in Zhonghai?" Benson crossed his arms, raised his chin slightly, and looked at Ke Lan with the advantage of his height. "What do you think? Is this condition acceptable?"
This guy's conditions are really...
A feeling of irritation suddenly emerged from the depths of Ke Lan's heart. Logically speaking, this condition actually had many loopholes - the other party did not stipulate that they had to take the lead, they could just kill time on the boat... To put it bluntly, even if the Aurora Group's advance team was wiped out before exploring the underwater city, it would not be considered a violation of the agreement.
But the problem lies in time. For Ke Lan and his team, this operation is completely different from previous missions. They are trying to save people and they have to race against time!
Everyone present could wait, except Ivan, who was lying in the liquid nitrogen freezer .
"Okay, I promise you." Ke Lan finally nodded.
"Okay, I like dealing with straightforward people and having fun working with them." Benson extended his hand toward Ke Lan, but Ke Lan completely ignored him and walked straight past him. Instead, Layton, who was following behind Ke Lan, took the opportunity to shake Benson's hand.
Even if it was second-hand, the power of the mechanical prosthesis was still incomparable to that of the human body. Ke Lan only heard a muffled groan from behind him, followed by Layton's hypocritical apology: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the sensor of this mechanical arm is not very sensitive, I didn't control the strength well, I'm so sorry——"
"..." Benson covered his hand with one hand, glared at Ke Lan and the others fiercely, then turned and left.
"Layton, how is it?" Ke Lan turned his head and asked the big cyborg behind him who was several heads taller than him.
"I didn't find any mechanical prosthesis on his body, but he should have undergone physical enhancement, at least to level three. I used 80% of my strength just now, and it only hurt him a little. Not to mention his bones and muscles, even his skin and flesh were not hurt." Leighton said as he stretched out his mechanical arm, only to see that the edge of his palm made of alloy was slightly deformed.
"Be careful on the road, he's a tough guy." The hound said in a deep voice.
"Speaking of tough guys, the toughest one among us hasn't even spoken yet." Layton suddenly grinned and looked at Asano Akira who was standing at the end of the team.
"Asano, if I ask you to deal with Benson, how confident are you?" the Hound asked curiously.
Asano Akira: “Three.”
"30%? No... I think you are too modest, aren't you?"
" I said three seconds."
"...Ahem." The hound choked on his own saliva, "When did you learn to act this way?"
Asano Akira did not answer him. He just held the sword in his arms with his eyes lowered, as if to say, "Don't ask me if I don't know."
"Let's go. It's getting late. There's still a lot to do when we get there." Ke Lan glanced at the floating projection screen in the air. The time displayed in the upper right corner of the screen was exactly ten fifty. There were only ten minutes left before the Aurora Group's transport ship took off.
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Although the Aurora Group's high-speed transport ship doesn't look big from the outside, its cabin is quite spacious, with nearly a hundred seats. In addition to Ke Lan and Benson's advance team, two other groups of people had already taken their seats in the cabin.
One team was composed of soldiers from the escort force wearing dark blue uniforms and black vests. Their mission was to escort a batch of urgently needed supplies to the Pioneer icebreaker. The other team was composed of technicians from the Aurora Group. They were responsible for the launch of the artificial satellite just now. These two groups of people were busy with their own affairs. When they saw the arrival of Ke Lan and others, they mostly just looked up and glanced at them, then looked away.
However, the hunters under Benson had been looking at Ke Lan and the others with extremely unfriendly eyes since they entered the cabin. One of them, a skinny dwarf with a Mohawk hairstyle, even jumped onto the table, grinned at Ke Lan and the others, and made a throat-cutting gesture with his palm on his neck.
"Is this the 'professional ruins hunter' that woman mentioned? Why do they look like a bunch of hooligans whose hair hasn't even grown out yet?" Hound couldn't help but complain to Ke Lan, but his voice was "slightly" louder, so that everyone in the cabin heard it...
