404. Selling friends for profit

Somewhere in the Lisom system.

Dicata Federal Space Naval Academy, logistics engineering space station.

It is a large space station floating above the resource planet and can provide all civilian services, including logistics and ship maintenance and repair.

Many years ago, in order to deal with the cosmic creatures roaming around the universe and various mysterious events, the human cosmic countries, including the Dikaga Federation, jointly established a neutral military organization called the Unified Cooperation Bureau.

The Bureau of Unification and Cooperation, referred to as the Bureau of Unification, is mainly composed of military personnel from various human universe countries.

The Bureau has three regular departments, one of which is the Command Enforcement Department, which is responsible for interfacing with the space navies and mercenaries without borders.

Players who have registered as a legal mercenary in the Command Enforcement Department will be able to rest on the space stations of the member states of the Unified Bureau.

Players usually set their resurrection point after death in a space station that is relatively close to the mission location, so as to facilitate their "running corpse" - that is, returning to the mission location as soon as possible.

The same goes for the team of players led by refreshing cucumber slices.

They use the station as their safe zone, both to smash the prestige creatures of the Star Pirates and to better deal with the hostile cosmic creatures that infest the system.

He often drank bitter gourd juice before his foot slipped and fell to the ground, and accidentally detonated the explosive in advance, which not only affected his teammates, but also killed him directly.

In a certain lounge of the space station, he often drank bitter gourd juice and wore a white dress sent by the system, and appeared on the bed in the lounge out of thin air.

He opened his eyes and sat up sharply from the bed, his eyes shining with a complex glint of excitement and self-reproach.

"I'm sorry, brothers..."

He often drank bitter gourd juice and raised his hand to cover his face, was silent for a few seconds, and rubbed his cheeks vigorously a few times.

He looked at his clothes.

As soon as the player dies, all items on his body will be dropped, and his tattered power armor and full-body items will be left in the underground treasure room.

In addition, 50% of his current level experience bar will be deducted by the system as the price of respawning after death.

Fortunately, although there is a loss of equipment and experience, the basic services provided by the game system have not changed.

The friend function, the forum function, and so on, are all in normal operation.

Often drink bitter gourd juice, take a deep breath, and silently recite "Open the game interface".

A system interface that only he could see popped up in front of his eyes.

Bitter Melon Juice skillfully clicked on the "Friends" list and forced himself not to look at the team members' friend avatars.

He pulls down his friends list, finds a friend profile picture hidden deep in it, and clicks on it to send a line of messages.

"Brother Long, I have super important information to sell, and it's a chain quest line to open a super large expansion."

After sending the message, Bitter Melon Juice looked nervous and prayed to the other party to check the friend's message quickly.

The player he called Brother Long, his full name is Golden Dragon in the sky.

The name is very flamboyant as soon as it sounds.

In fact, the golden dragon has this capital in the sky.

He is the boss of the big guild in the game, and there are more than 300 professional players under him to prepare game currency and various materials for him.

Outside of the game, Bitter Melon Juice doesn't know exactly what the situation of the golden dragon is in the sky, and it is said that it is not simple.

The player squad where Bitter Melon Juice is located is famous for exploring the game's plot and digging out hidden gameplay, and is quite famous on the game forum.

As a result, the team members get acquainted with the golden dragon Jaetian, who is eager to have a hidden class.

Now, Jin Long's position as a friend in the sky has become a convenient channel for bitter gourd juice to betray his teammates and seek personal gain.

After waiting for more than ten seconds in torment, a "Dididi" prompt sounding to symbolize the arrival of new news.

Bitter gourd juice couldn't wait to open the chat window of his friend and chatted with Jin Long in the sky.

Jin Long Zaitian: "Is the message authentic?" Are there any screenshots and videos? ”

Bitter gourd juice dragged out of the task interface, and with the system's built-in screenshot function, took a screenshot and sent it to the other party, with a line of words attached:

"It's true, Brother Long!"

The golden dragon passed a few seconds in the sky, and then sent a new message:

"Why can't I contact your captain?"

Bitter gourd juice was in a hurry, and hurriedly typed and said:

"Brother Long! The rewards for this Ring 1 quest are out of print! Whoever finishes it first will be given an out-of-print title and reward! I guess the out-of-print rewards include the inaugural quest of the hidden profession! So... Eh, so I delayed the captain's progress, and one person died from the dungeon, so I can send you a message! ”

Jin Long Zaitian didn't know whether he was speculating about the meaning of bitter gourd juice, or continued to try to contact the refreshing cucumber slices, but did not give an answer for the time being.

Seeing that there was no news from the other party, bitter gourd juice immediately sped up and wrote:

"One price, 1 million credits..."

Bitter gourd juice was at hand, and changed "1 million" to "5 million".

"Fixed price, 5 million credits, I'll take you to the mission location to trigger this mission right now! I blew up the captain with a beam of high-energy bombs. Surely they won't be able to complete the task! I promise you're the only one who can get the job done! ”

After the message was sent, Bitter Melon Juice returned to the friends list and glanced at the friend avatars of his team members.

The words "temporarily unreachable" appear on the avatars of the squads in the mission state, which means that they have not quit the dungeon.

"This can't be, I really set off the explosive beam before the hatch closed, why didn't they have anything to do at all?!"

The bitter gourd juice only felt a cool breath rushing to my head.

No matter how unlucky he was, he should have destroyed a few people's power armor with a beam of explosives, right?!

But why didn't anyone except him die from the dungeon and come back to life in the space station!?

Bitter gourd juice is even ready to face his teammates.

But compared to the anger of his teammates and his own self-blame, he is more afraid of facing this situation where his teammates should have died but nothing happened.

To a large extent, this means that the act of detonating the explosive beam in advance did not have the desired effect.

"Impossible, impossible! My explosion must have destroyed the hatch! Once the hatch can't be closed, it is a sure thing that the captain and they will be wiped out by the monsters! How could they not have anything at all!? ”

The bitter gourd juice grew irritable, grabbing her hair and roaring in the room.

At this moment, Jin Long sent a message in the sky:

"You're really a ruthless person, for money, you even sell your teammates!"

Bitter gourd juice gasped a few times, forced himself to calm down, and typed in response:

"Just say if you want to, Brother Long? If I had another way to scrape together money to pay off my debts, I wouldn't do it! ”

A few seconds later, the golden dragon said in the sky:

"Okay. Send your wallet code and coordinates and we'll sign a confidentiality agreement. I'll give you 2.5 million credits first, and then transfer 2.5 million after the deed is done. ”

"Thank you, Brother Long." Bitter gourd juice clicks on its own character panel, drags and drops personal coordinates and wallet codes to the friend's chat interface and sends it out.

Jin Long sent a letter of agreement asking for the confidentiality of bitter gourd juice in the sky. This agreement is in duplicate, one in-game and the other out-of-game.

"Dididi..."

After the agreement was signed, a message came from the game wallet, indicating that bitter gourd juice had received an after-tax transfer of 2.5 million credits.

The anxiety in the heart of the bitter gourd juice was immediately diluted by wealth, and he cheered in the room with great excitement.

Credits are the base currency in the game, which can be freely exchanged with real-life currencies on the game's official platform, and there are no additional taxes and fees.

At this time, 10 credits is equal to 1 dollar in reality.

Just by simply selling a teammate, bitter gourd juice has a large amount of wealth that is difficult for ordinary people to obtain in a short period of time.

If it were someone else, maybe he would have made the same choice.

After bitter gourd juice got 2.5 million credits, he immediately converted all of them into real cash, all of which he used to pay off the debt of buying a car.

"I have so much money, wouldn't it be better to play a fart game and have fun directly in reality?"

That being said, the bitter gourd juice is still a little reluctant in his heart.

After all, this kind of realistic game where you can freely venture around the space station and see all kinds of wonderful and extraordinary races is really rare on the market, and it can be said to be unique.

"Forget it, it's a big deal to wait for the same type of game in the future, I'll play it again... Just take advantage of the days when you don't play games, invest more in reality, and multiply your capital several times. Wait until the next time I enter the game, I'm a rich man! ”

"Didi, Didi."

The golden dragon sent a message in the sky:

"Wait at the dock, we'll be there shortly."

The bitter gourd juice immediately opened the door and ran wildly through the spotless corridor.

After a while, he came to the somewhat deserted space station dock under the guidance of the signs.

Due to the remoteness of the planetary system in which the space station is located, the number of ships anchored here is very small.

Usually only players who do logistics tasks will come here to hand in tasks with mission items and take a public ship.

When the bitter gourd juice arrived, there was an extra scorpion-like starship in the empty dock.

This ship is a relatively common missile battleship in the space navies of various countries, and as its name suggests, it is called the Scorpion.

It has a full 8 missile launchers and a UAV combat module with a volume of about 200 cubic meters, which can accommodate 40 light UAVs at the same time.

Among the high-end players who are keen to hit the space station and farm the space monsters, this dual-function ship that can rely on drones to contain highly maneuverable enemy ships and bombard targets with missiles is particularly popular.

Provided, of course, that is, money.

After all, whether it is the maintenance and repair of the spaceship, or the missiles that are shot out and the damaged drones, this is all something that needs to be bought.

In general, only a gold owner like Jin Long Zaitian, who has a large number of professional players' blood supply, can drive a missile battleship to harvest monsters in space as much as he wants in less than half a year after the game was launched.

When bitter gourd juice saw this ship, his heart erupted with the restlessness that every man has, and it was obvious that he had also longed to have his own ship.

But as soon as he thought that his betrayal of his teammates in the game would definitely be exposed, he cut off the idea of continuing to play the game.

"Didi, Didi."

The golden dragon sent a message in the sky:

"Have you arrived? Get on board. There's just me in the dockyard with a Scorpion. ”

Bitter Melon Juice came back to his senses, hurriedly boarded the floating platform, and flew towards the Scorpion, whose hatch was wide open.

The interstellar ships in the territory of the Unification Bureau have achieved a high degree of intelligence and foolishness.

In the entire Scorpion-class battleship, there are and only the professional players that the golden dragon has found in the sky and himself to fight, and there are no irrelevant crew members.

As soon as the bitter gourd juice got on the boat, it was taken to the control room by a very burly professional player with a slightly disdainful face.

Looking at the appearance of these professional gamers, they must already know about the bitter gourd juice betraying their teammates.

This kind of person who eats inside and out, and even pits his own people, is destined to have no good end, which is basically the consensus of all professional players in the game circle.

Therefore, since the bitter gourd juice was put on the boat, no one gave him a good face.

Even the gold lord Jin Long Zaitian, after asking the bitter gourd juice for the location of the mission, let the bitter gourd juice be locked in the cabin, without the slightest desire to talk.

"Boss, that kid is such a bastard." A professional player who seemed to be quite familiar with the golden dragon in the sky couldn't help but complain.

Jin Long has a rich face in the sky, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a fat body, and a little small belly, obviously not using the game's face pinching function to deliberately make himself a beautiful man.

He waved his hand disappreciatively and said:

"Little people have the difficulties of small people, we don't have to be like him."

Jin Long crossed his waist in the sky, stood next to the main console in the control room, looked at the scene of starlight flowing outside the window, and smiled smugly:

"But the team of cucumber slices was a bit unexpected to me. When I was friends with them, I just thought that they could help me decipher, run errands, and do tasks, but I really didn't expect that they would really dig up the plot line of the legendary expansion. This kind of powerful plot party is what I like. People like bitter gourd juice can just throw it away when they are finished. ”

"That's right." The golden dragon admonished on the side of the sky:

"Keep an eye on that kid, don't let him contact anyone else, and don't let him go offline."

The pro next to him nodded:

"Don't worry, boss, I've arranged everything, and there are two brothers staring at him."

The ship's jump engine was activated, and it sped through a blur of light and shadow, entered the jump channel, and quickly approached the mission site.

At the same time that the bitter gourd juice and the golden dragon were connected in the sky, the battle in the underground treasure room was still going on.

Just as the bitter gourd juice expected, his explosion directly scrapped the hatch of the combat compartment.

But!

The Star Thief Engineer who traveled with the players carried with them a plasticized foam that could be used as an emergency filler!

As soon as the hatch was destroyed, the Star Thieves, who had only one life, began to urge the engineers to seal the door with foam guns.

The engineer raised the foam gun and aimed it at the door frame.

The off-white foam fills the entire door frame with a pop, and in less than half a second, it is plasticized, and it turns from foam into an extremely hard engineering plastic.

It was this makeshift engineering plastic door that helped players buy extremely valuable time to rebuild.

"Captain... The bitter gourd juice died. One player sighed, apparently not thinking that the previous explosion was deliberately caused by bitter gourd juice.

The same goes for the other players.

Due to the chaos of the battle scene, no one thought that bitter gourd juice deliberately caused the accident, and they all attributed this small disaster to the monster outside the combat cabin.

"Don't be discouraged! Cheer up! Don't let the bitter gourd juice die in vain!! ”

Cucumber Slices shouted and picked up his firearm and spat out tongues of fire:

"Kill, kill, kill! Avenge bitter gourd juice! ”

The players were shocked, roared in anger, and breathed fire with their guns.

"Kill, kill, kill!" (End of chapter)