Chapter 63: The Business of Osgood (I)
The clock was pulled back to dozens of hours ago.
Osgood is a player from Mars Sector 17, also known as a Martian civilian.
In the Second World, Osgood is an explorer who likes to explore everything known and unknown with his eyes, hands and feet. The explorers play the role of informants in the forum, and occasionally come up with some "strategies" from a special perspective.
When an explorer wants to go to many places, the space battleship is useless, and there will also be a lot of strange directions to spend, such as buying off the black forces in the target area to facilitate some special investigations and so on. Osgood's interest and meagre benefits led him to give up owning his own ship and become the highest-paid man in the industry, the Interstellar Channel's war correspondent for the Gabrian federal station.
Recently, through an informant for a correspondent on the Federal Interstellar Channel, Osgood obtained secret information that Space Fleet 727 Squadron was on its way to capture a pirate leader.
Since the theft of the quantum tunnel evasion algorithm many years ago, pirates have become a cancer in the eyes of various countries, and they are greedy, looting all kinds of ships and materials, seriously restricting the development of interstellar trade, and even forming an inviolable forbidden area belonging to pirates, the Sea of Death.
The Gabriel Federation Space Fleet has not caught a pirate head, and from the informant's intelligence, this time it is in the MR239 system. Osgood looked through some clues that could be consulted by the public and the backstage information of the international channel, and found that the 727 Squadron had two types of 10 frigates and a comparable number of newly equipped heavy frigates, and the previous anti-piracy operation in the territory was only larger than the 727 Squadron, which was more than 10 years ago...... At that time, the Second World was not yet the Galactic Era, and it was completely fabricated history.
In other words, this is the largest anti-piracy operation in the Federation of Gabri!
As a war correspondent, you can't miss an opportunity. After going through a formal journalist application process and having bribed several officials, Osgood boarded a medium-sized frigate of the 727 Squadron as a local corvette.
The first mate of the frigate was the informant who provided the information in front. Except for the captain of the space battleship, the treatment of other personnel is only about half of that of the private space force, although this is still several times that of the middle class in the vast majority of the atmosphere, but once things are compared, there will naturally be a psychological imbalance, many space soldiers will earn some extra money through various channels, and the first mate on the ship is a veteran of this, and it is said that his annual extra money is much higher than his salary.
In order to get more insider information, Osgood invested in the capital, and after getting on the ship, he climbed a little relationship, and when they talked happily, he secretly stuffed the first mate with ten star coins, physical star coins. He knew that a number in his bank account was far less attractive than a physical one, and that Star Coins were more than just a piece of metal, and that its jade-like appearance was also particularly endearing, and that there were many people in the black market who sold Star Coins as works of art despite the fact that it was a felony to smelt Star Crystals without permission.
For the sake of the star coins, the first mate was very cooperative, but unfortunately the general crew could not access the more advanced secrets, so Osgood had to take out another ten star coins and let the first mate find a way to start from the captain's side.
Sure enough, the captain knew the inside story, and it turned out that this time it was another pirate head who wanted to betray the time and coordinates of the target pirate head to enter the MR239 galaxy, so that the Federation could lower its wanted ranking and level.
No one knows how the deal was made, but he does know that there is nothing to say about a thousand wanted criminals out of the atmosphere or in the atmosphere, and there is no real difference between a thousand and two thousand for the military. The number of first-class wanted criminals between 100 and 300 is different, and any wanted criminal who has not been dragged to prison will only be pushed back a little bit when there are more violent wanted criminals, and at this stage if he does not commit a crime for a few months, he may be squeezed down by two or three, which basically does not help to reduce the attention of the military. They are not as official as some of the big pirate groups, so they care more about their wanted rankings than other most wanted criminals.
"Who was sold?"
"A pirate leader named Pan Wen robbed the military of a 'Janitor' class here some time ago, and the boss was almost angry to death."
Upon hearing the subject, Osgood had a black line in his head. He knew this man, because the news was quite sensational in the Federation. This guy took the military frigate alive, and many people questioned the army's will to fight and tactical cultivation, which made the army lose face, and suddenly changed from a little-known third-level wanted criminal to a first-class, or the top one.
The fleet was still preparing for the port when it got great news, and it took Osgood countless mental strength to endure not getting off the ship and sending the news out. However, he still used the public resource network that could still be used at this time to check Pan Wen's past.
It turns out that this guy has been a first-class wanted criminal of the Islamic Empire, the sworn enemy of the Federation, a long time ago, but in the past two months, I don't know what earth-shattering things he has done that have not been made public, and his ranking keeps flying, and now he is already a special wanted criminal of the Islamic Empire, ranking nineteenth! In front of him are some guys who have been famous for a long time and can stop children crying at night!
It's a pity that the imperial system of the Islamic Empire has stricter management of secrets, and the people have no right to inquire and want to know the inside story, unless someone can get it out of the mouth of a high-ranking official...... How can a simple reporter get in touch with that level, changing his name and surname is almost the same after more than ten years in the Islamic Empire.
Shocked for a moment by the information of the target pirate head, Osgood suddenly thought of something, and after consulting about the approximate sailing time, he made an excuse to enter the stationary module.
Osgood transforms into a black brother in the forum, lingers in the public area for a while to find his target, and enters a strangely named chat room, the Victims' Alliance.
As a professional paparazzi, he has to constantly pay attention to the dynamics of NPCs and players at all levels in the second world, and the victim alliance is very troublesome in the late last era, and it is not obscure.
The Victim League chat room is a very strange group of people, some of them are ordinary players who have been hurt by NPCs, some of them hate the top NPCs, and they also worship the legendary Awakened - a very special kind of NPC that is often more targeted at the player group. The existence of the Awakened Osgudu is unbelievable in his heart, and it is not possible that a few players with some special circumstances pretend to be ghosts, of course, he will not publicly say that he does not believe it, otherwise the purpose of coming here will be in vain.
After chatting with a few random people in the chat room, Osgood pretended to sleep and lay on a couch in a nice position, where he could hear the sound of half the existing area of the chat room. He has done professional paparazzi training, and even the skill system is different from that of ordinary players, as long as he can hear it, he can find out the important information he wants from the chaotic voices of hundreds of people!
After waiting patiently for two hours in his sleep, someone finally mentioned the name "Pan Wen". He got up and moved to the source of the sound, and sat down in the compartment next to the person who spoke.
"That guy seems to have disappeared for more than a week, didn't he be killed?" After many encounters, although only the people of the Golden Eagle Guild had the opportunity to see Pan Wen's picture, his name climbed too fast on the wanted list, and it was easy for players to confirm his identity compared to other pirates.
"If you can kill him, I don't know what good things will burst."
"I said that this is difficult, we can't take the fleet to guard him all day long, relying on the official army to estimate that it is enough."
Fortunately, the native language they speak is spoken by a very large number of people, and it is a language of the earth age called Huaxia, and the reporter has requirements for mastery of the native language, except that he is not very good at writing, but Osgood can also use it to communicate.
"His fleet has only three frigates, and only one of them is two guns, which is not too big a boss, and it is not difficult for the official to move him."
"The attack power of the people is obviously a big boss, and the players haven't gone to the official to plan something, you think too much."
At this point, there was obviously an opportunity to interject, but Osgood didn't let it slip away: "That's not necessarily, I heard that the Federation sent a squadron to arrest him." ”
The board between the compartments was not high, and the people over there got up a little and saw Osgood, seeing that he was only one person, and knew that he had not yet found a "chat friend" in the chat room, and one of the fat men hurriedly greeted: "Yo! The eldest brother seems to know a little bit of the inside story, come and sit down, and tell me that you can eat and drink whatever you want. ”
Inserting without difficulty at all, Osgood pouted behind his back, turned to find a place to sit down, poured the red wine, and took a cigar from a gold-encrusted box on the table and lit it.
"You seem to be paying attention to his news."
"Not really! Ya is an awakened person who opened his eyes directly after the opening of the Great Galactic Era, beating everywhere, very fierce, but rare! ”
Oskudu really wants to know what that guy has fought to become a wanted criminal, and when the time comes, the 727 squadron will be able to write a long report with the ins and outs. It's a pity that he is not familiar with the relationship in front of him, and he has another purpose, so it is difficult to speak.
"Tell me, what do you mean by a squadron going to arrest him?"
"Oh, I also heard from a friend that a squadron of the Federation Space Fleet received a tip to arrest him."
The fat man was not happy when he heard it, this girl was hiding and tucking, it seemed that she wanted to get some benefits. He didn't mind sprinkling some credits, but it wouldn't be fun to play with his heart.
The fat man leaned back on the sofa and stopped talking, and the handsome guy on the other side, who was a little mixed-race, glanced at the fat man, guessed what was going on, smiled silently, and continued to ask: "I am from the Empire, how large is a squadron of your Federation's space fleet?" That guy is not easy to fight. ”
"What kind of squadron is it, if you say that the 727 squadron has more than eight medium-sized frigates. If you're interested, I can try to get a friend to get this combat record. ”
Even if the fat man didn't want to pay attention to this tricky black guy, he was still tempted and glanced at the handsome mixed-race guy.
The mixed-race handsome guy nodded as well. Recently, there have been a lot of results in the study of tactics, and with the entry into service of a new type of fighter customized by a company established by their small group, the average enemy is no longer eye-catching. However, a record of the battle between the top NPCs and the Federation fleet is still very valuable, no matter which side wins, at least it can give them a detailed view of the confrontation between the medium fleets, and in the future, with the medium ships, they will naturally be able to take fewer detours.
"I'll pay your friend a thousand credits for hard work, and you have to make sure that this combat information won't become public in a short period of time." The mixed-race handsome guy is not verbose, and he will quote directly.
1,000 credits is already half of Osgood's monthly benefits, converted into Star Coins, with the help of professionals, he can definitely get very high-level secrets in the second world, and the requirement is only that it will not become public information for a short time, and he can even find other buyers!