Chapter 16: The Mission Begins
The Elder's words didn't seem very good, but they were exactly what he said. If you can't come back this time, then you don't need to bring anything with you.
They said it was a test, but in fact, it was because they received the news. Today would be their first day of protecting merchant ships, and the distance was not particularly far, and as a large caravan, they themselves had their own escort. The reason why Mo Ran and a few people were added was also to give the Xiwei people a little face. In fact, it is not much use to have a few more Mo Ran.
Putting the gun away, Mo Ran walked out of the room. Rogge was already waiting for him at the door at this time, and he also received the message first, and then notified Mo Ran.
"Where are the employers?" Mo Ran asked in a low voice, and then looked around, as he thought, this time the mission was supposed to be completed by a team of ten people, but now it was only him and Rogge who were here.
"Don't look, I didn't call them." Rogge fiddled with the gun in his hand, and Mo Ran noticed that the runes on Rogge's gun were not the same as his.
Wanliu stood behind Rogge, and when she saw Mo Ran come out, she entered his room, apparently to say something to the elder.
"Why don't you call them?" Mo Ran asked in a low voice, and then followed Rog into the distance.
"I don't necessarily have to go if I call them, I heard that they have already gone on other tasks, and some of them have already left here." Rogge whispered. In an unfamiliar environment, if you don't work hard and sit still, you will definitely die quickly.
Mo Ran nodded, he understood.
Rogge raised his right hand, and soon two trailing rays carried them into the spaceship in mid-air. Then he flew off into the distance.
It wasn't long before they came to the same platform where they had first entered this space.
"Honorable guests, are you leaving?" As soon as he entered here, the spherical reception robot came to Rogge and Mo Ran, who had just landed.
"Yes, we're going to the eighth big platform." Rog glanced at the panel in his hand, which contained some information about his employer, the caravan's ship was parked at the eighth platform of Redya, which was a large platform, not the same as the medium-sized platform they had seen before.
The journey to the large platform was similar to when they entered the settlement, except that their platform slowed down all the way and flew out.
Redya's large platform is some distance from Redya, and when leaving the habited area, the ship comes to a small platform on the periphery, and some traction beams shoot from the small spherical robots, so that they do not fly away due to weightlessness in the universe.
Mo Ran looked at the deep space around them, except for the distant huge planet, the biggest was the border defense city of Redya behind them.
"After we leave, will anyone be detrimental to Wan Wan?" Mo Ran asked hesitantly. Mo Ran, the hooligans of the Xiwei clan before, naturally didn't see them, but this didn't reassure Mo Ran, those hooligans obviously didn't come to Mo Ran, so the result was to stay.
"Don't worry! The neighborhood is still very safe, and no one can disturb them after closing the door. Rog smiled as they all wore helmets when they left Redya. The breathing converter is not to make air, in a universe without air, the air converter will not help them much, it can only use the oxygen tank in the mecha.
"If the security in Redya is very poor, there are still people here to do business." Rogge said with a smile. Mo Ran nodded, relieved.
The eighth large platform was no longer around Redya, but on a small satellite outpost farther away. Large transport ships themselves are built very large because they require a lot of space to carry cargo. But the defense capabilities of the ship itself are limited. After all, there is no gravity in the universe, so the armor of the spaceship itself is also very weak, as long as the cargo is stacked in the cargo hold of the spaceship.
As for security, these cargo ships have little defense, except for a small number of weapons such as cannons. And the task of protection and combat is naturally the responsibility of other combat ships.
Although the caravan is capable of purchasing a large number of unmanned ships to protect the merchant ships, there have been cases where cosmic bandits deciphered the code of the unmanned fleet, and finally controlled the unmanned fleet to rob the caravan that was originally protected by them.
In this way, for the safety of the caravan itself and the goods, it is natural to mix the biologically controlled fleet and the unmanned fleet to a certain extent, and the control is handed over to trustworthy people. This greatly reduces the number of situations in which the unmanned fleet is controlled. Although there will still be unmanned fleets that will be controlled, the probability of that happening is very small.
So, when Moran and Rogge arrived at the small satellite outpost in the distance in the spaceship, there were already several huge cargo ships parked here.
Mo Ran looked at the huge cargo ship and felt like an ant in front of a giant. Although they are small satellites, each one is hundreds of kilometers in size. Each of the cargo ships parked on it was five or six kilometers long and one kilometer high. Most of them are huge warehouses that are put together with a few components.
"You're from the Kunde clan?" Just when Mo Ran was secretly sighing=, a tall creature not far away jumped in front of Mo Ran and Rogge and asked. He has four legs, and his usual way of movement is jumping. Of course, coupled with his heavy mecha, when he fell, Mo Ran could feel the ground trembling slightly.
There can be such a slight vibration in low gravity, which can only show that the mecha on this creature is very heavy, but the other party does not seem to have much discomfort. At the very least, it's certain that the internal body of his mech is very strong.
"Yes, my name is Rogge, this is my comrade-in-arms, my name is Mo Ran." Rogge said with a smile. He just made a brief introduction, and didn't make too many moves, because of the different cultures, there are great differences in the interpretation of some body language, and Rogge naturally did nothing to prevent misunderstanding, just briefly introduced them.
"According to the information I received, there should be ten of you?" Looking at the panel on his right arm again, he didn't think the two creatures in front of him were just the height of his waist. But for the sake of the task, he could only ask patiently.
"Yes, but something happened on our side, and it was only the two of us who came." Rogge explained.
"Then we can't give you all the retainer money, but only 20% of it. You don't think it's going to work. The creature frowned, then muttered. Although there is no shortage of these people, he does not abide by the agreement as soon as he comes up, which makes him feel very bad.
Rogge hesitated, if there were only two layers of employment money, then in the end they could only get about two thousand commissions, but this escort task lasted more than a month, and such a deal Rogge couldn't measure.
"No problem." Mo Ran hesitated, not as measured by Rogge as he thought. I just agreed. "But we want to be able to pay the commission upfront."
"That's not a problem, I hope we can have a good time working together." The creature smiled. This is a task of escorting ore, and there is not much danger in itself. In the universe, such ore transportation is very numerous. When the mineral resources of their own planet are not enough to sustain development, many businessmen are aiming at the depths of the universe.
Some backward or developed planets, because of their abundant mineral resources, will exchange these resources for a lot of trading gold, seeking better development.
"Well, I'll introduce you to the other mercenaries who have also accepted this mission, and I hope you can get along well." As he spoke, he looked at the cargo ship behind him. Naturally, there is a monitor in the cargo ship, which has been observing the surrounding situation.
"How are there two queiros?" A creature covered in a dark green mecha cursed in a deep voice, and the Contoss' contempt for all two-handed creatures was Quero. It was a lazy creature in the old tale of the Protoss creatures, and he liked to deceive people.
"This is what the Xiwei people have found for us, and it seems to be the same race as the Xiwei people, called the Kunde tribe." The other creature standing next to the man whispered. "As a Xiwei who have been working with us for a long time, we are just helping with this little favor."
The creature that spoke later was the same creature they had seen, his legs crossed back and forth, walking into the distance.
"You know, if you travel with Quero, something bad will definitely happen. They are going to attract disaster. The creature that spoke first shouted at his back.
"We have enough protection, don't worry about that. If there are pirates, that's something you need to worry about. The captain said without looking back.
In the distance, a few trailing rays of light wrapped around them, and then flew towards a freighter at the very edge.
"There are five or six small combat ships on each cargo ship, as well as a large number of small unmanned warships." The creature that greeted Rog and Moran introduced. "If someone rushes to board the ship, you need to attack. If not, or if the enemy's strength is very weak, we may even conduct an anti-landing operation. You all know that! ”
"Yes." Moran replied. And Rogge on the side didn't speak at this time.
"Why did you say yes like that? More than 2,000 trading funds is not much, but in more than a month, if we change tasks, we may be able to earn more. Rogge said to Mo Ran in a private communication.
"Rogge, you should know how much discrimination these alien creatures have against us, if we change the mission, then there are only two of us, how many missions can we take?" Speaking of this, Mo Ran turned his head to look at Rogge on the side. At this time, they were already in mid-air, flying towards the cargo ship.
Rogge fell silent. First of all, there are not many of them, so there will definitely not be many tasks that can be received in the end. Now they don't have any income, and if this task is abandoned, Rogge himself doesn't know if he will be able to find a suitable task again in a short time. It's not his habit to sit and eat.
Although he thought about it a lot just now, when it came time to finally decide, he hesitated.
"We might be able to keep the money now, maybe she'll have a better way." Speaking of Wanliu, Mo Ran himself didn't know why he did it. Perhaps the conversations with the elders these days had given him a deeper understanding of the creature, and why Rog had allowed these elves to scatter their ranks.
Elves do think better than humans. If more than 2,000 transaction gold were of little use in their hands, in the hands of the elves, there was a great possibility of miracles.
Rogge hesitated for a moment, and then left a fraction of the more than 2,000 transaction money just given by his employer, and transferred 2,000 to Wanliu.
And Wanliu on Redya soon received two thousand trading dollars from Rogge, as well as a brief text message. "I'm sure you can make good use of the transaction funds, we will go on a mission, and it will take about three months to be able to come back."
At this time, Rogge went through the panel to find a planet they were going to. It was a newly developed planet, and there were still many aborigines on it. Because it was not long after the Xiwei people first discovered it, but if they wanted to occupy and use it for a long time, they needed to build a lot of infrastructure, but it was very time-consuming to exploit the resources of the planet itself, so they first transported a large amount of ore and development resources from other places, then established outposts, and finally large-scale development. This can be a bit of a hassle at first, but it will undoubtedly save a lot of time compared to mining from the original planet.
At this time, Mo Ran and Rogge had already entered the cargo ship. The main body of the cargo ship is not large, mainly because the cargo compartment connected to the back is too large. The main power system of the cargo ship is only more than one kilometer long and more than 60 meters high. There are a large number of intelligent robots and a small number of ship engineers to manage.
When Mo Ran and the others first stepped on the spaceship, a creature wearing a green mecha scanned Mo Ran and Rog in front of them with a beam of light. This is very impolite behavior. In the universe, there is no such thing as a minimum of respect. Because those beams will check most of the opponent's mechs, if there is no malicious intent, there is no need for such a way.
"I heard that there were two Quiro just now, and now it seems that they should also be small characters." The creature in the green mech sneered, then looked at the creature that had entered with Moran and Rog. "You're talking about waiting for these two Quero?"
Looking at the creature with its four arms folded in front of its chest, its tall body could roughly identify that it was a mercenary of the Xiwei clan. But the other party's behavior just now had already made Mo Ran and Rogge a little angry.
"Yes. If so, I think you can get to know each other a little bit. The man who had brought them with him said this, and turned away.
"Quero, do you know why you only have one pair of arms?" The Shewi mercenary who had strafed Rog and Moran with a probe said with a smile, but his words smacked of mockery.