Chapter 17 Ten Thousand
Although he experienced horror, Zero slowly recovered after returning home.
Originally, the social order was distorted and deformed, and there were a few mentally abnormal people that were completely normal.
Fortunately, I came home with a full load tonight, and there were really a few of the scraps I picked up in my pockets that could be used.
The next day, Ling took Dongdong and Sid to the repair shop to find Old John. The latter was very forthright and said that not only did he take the junk in her hands, but he could also give the mechanical corgi to upgrade on credit.
Zero's eyes lit up: "Really, thank you, Grandpa, the shopkeeper!"
Just a few hours later, watching the improved stuff running around the house, Zero hesitated: "Grandpa, is there such a possibility... it It's actually a dog?"
Dongdong's metal shell was replaced with a new one, a lovely glutinous beige color, and the lost ears were also installed, and the internal parts were updated.
The problem is that it has a small wing on each side of its original round body, which flutters when it runs, and retracts on both sides when it is stationary.
Old John blew his beard and stared: "Little girl, you are questioning my aesthetic taste as an engineer! A mechanical dog who doesn't want to be a bird is not a good fighting partner!"
He held Dongdong up to show, "Your pile of garbage is at most. It can be exchanged for more than a dozen federal coins. The pair of wings I have installed is a good thing. Think about it, when the intersection ahead is crowded, do you run faster or fly faster?" The
surrounding customers cheered the venue and gave a loud applause. .
"The owner's masterpiece!"
"It's an ingenious modification, better than Baker's machinery!"
Old John raised his eyebrows and beard, and looked confident with honey.
Zero silence for a moment: It seems that there is some truth to what he said.
So she returned home with Dongdong and Sid who were increasingly abnormal.
That night, the long overdue task settlement finally came down.
"Crash-"
The prompt that the money arrives in the account is comparable to Xianle.
[Congratulations, the D-level mission reward of No. 51201 has received 700 federal coins. ]
[Congratulations, 51200 B-level additional task, received 5000 federal coins. ]
In addition, Lu Nan also sent 1,000 Federal Coins, saying it was a thank you fee for healing.
Zero looked at his bulging wallet, and couldn't close his chin for a long time.
This is why so many desperate people flock to the mercenary profession.
High risk, high reward, but also high mortality.
Zero called Old John with the money he owed, and then clicked to log in to the [Mercenary Love Home Cares You, Me and Him] platform, and found that the number of people online had increased by several hundred more than a week ago, and the team area was still noisy and lively.
Zero checked the completion of the tasks he received, and it showed [Psychological Assessment: Excellent], [Task Report: Headquarters received].
She nodded with satisfaction.
The settlement of quest rewards is not only about money, but also personal points. Zero is still a novice, and she is not interested in the [Upgrade Area] at all. She just suddenly found out that she can set up an avatar frame!
Pink kittens and rabbits are so cute, who wouldn't be tempted?
Put it all together~~
Set up a cute avatar frame, watch it carefully for a long time, and then exit the platform satisfied. She didn't notice that the hot list exploded overnight.
The mercenary ranking list only shows the IDs of the top 10,000 people. It is called the Power List. Most of them are third-level mercenaries. There may be a few second-level mercenaries in the lower ranks, but they are also killed. The top leaders are basically difficult to change for a few years. If they change, they will either die or retire. But the competition in the back row can be described as fierce, and every position is watched by countless pairs of eyes. Without knowing it, Zero jumped from the 200,000th to the 10,000th in an instant.
The second-level mercenary Beavis took care of a new hairstyle today and whistled to the tavern in their city for entertainment. This tavern is a place where local mercenaries often come to relax, and everyone greets him familiarly when they see him.
"Hey! Beavis, back from the mission!"
"Hello everyone, drink more today, I'll treat you!" He waved.
Someone joked: "What happened to you today? Why are you so happy?"
Beavis put on a handsome pose: "I have a C-level task system to settle down today, if I'm right, I should You can get rid of the ranking of 10,000 people and move on!”
God knows how much psychological pressure it is to do this 10,000 people, he has to endure the challenges of countless people, he is really fed up! He is going to become the 9999th, whoever he loves at the end of the crane should be!
Hearing this, everyone in the tavern was silent. Someone resisted laughing and persuaded: "It's okay
to have a drink. You haven't seen the Love Home platform today... I suggest you go and see it first."
I know, he hasn't been on a mission recently, so he can never be overtaken.
Just thinking about it, Beavis opened the platform and saw that his name was followed by: No: 10001, and the last position on the Billboard became someone else's ID.
"..."
"No!!! It's impossible! I don't admit it!" Beavis' eyes were split.
"Who is this! Which guy with short eyes grabbed my 10,000 position..." He quickly opened the Billboard to check, and saw the ID at the bottom: 0-0.
If you don't see it, you will be shocked when you see it.
Beavis exclaimed: "What is this?! It's outrageous! I don't believe--!" The
friends sighed: "In fact, before you came, we had been talking for a long time. The speed of this person's leveling is really like sitting Rocket."
There was a lot of discussion in the tavern, and the platform forum was actually frying.
The only posts in the [Team Special Area] where you can speak freely are no longer looking for teammates, but have become all kinds of speculation.
[Passerby A]: Which god's trumpet is this? From 200,000 to 10,000 within a week, is this upgrade speed real?
[Passerby B]: I can't see the specific access details, but the total amount of shabby tasks is visible.
[Passerby C]: There are only 2 tasks, 2 tasks!
In the hundreds of pages of task lists, very few people will pay attention to the 51201 afforestation task, let alone remember the name of zero. In the other mercenary team, except for Ling Tian, everyone didn't know Zero's ID, so she completely became a mystery.
[Passerby D]: I have already reported it to the guild headquarters, she must be tricky! Such a rapid upgrade? Fake or not!
[Passerby E]: ...Did you forget that there is another possibility.
——That is, without reinforcements and single-kill B-level deformers, you can directly advance to the 10,000 ranking.
There was a moment of silence in the forum.
[Passerby F]: Could it be that another Mo team appeared?
Beavis read these posts over and over, and found that everyone was surprised by the 0-0 upper position. No one cared that he became 10001. He just felt extremely sad, and tears like lasagna flowed down his face.
Beavis: "Oh, another talented newcomer."
Friends laughed at him: "It's not good to be old!"
This is the truth, even with the cute and soft pink avatar frame of 0-0, he also feels Incredibly creepy.
In fact, things were not as twisted and twisted as the mercenaries thought, and the mission report of Zero Three was extremely simple.
There is nothing to hide in the killing process of the B-level aberrant: Jesse sniper output all the way, Lu Nan used a blue-light shield to cut off the tail of the Zard, and the fatal injury was that Zero fired a few shots at the opponent's head.
Although in theory it can't die, in fact it does die.
Zero and Lunan and Jesse wrote like this.
Coupled with what the vice president Ling Tian saw with his own eyes, the relevant departments of the platform headquarters determined that Zero was the final killer, and Lu Nan and Jesse were assisting contributors.
Everyone only sees Zero rushing to the 10,000th. In fact, the ranking of Lu Nan and Jesse is also very inhuman. Now Lu Nan ranks 20,000 and Jesse ranks 30,000. You must know that they were originally more than 100,000. of.
Zero doesn't know that the ID 0-0 has become a 'hidden boss', and she is tossing between buying a house or buying something.
This is probably... just the trouble of the rich, right?
The old owner of Sid needed 20,000 federal dollars to buy the house, which is not enough now, but there is always something to save.
But strengthening the current armed forces is again the number one task.
After thinking for a moment, at An Ling's suggestion, Zero chose to solve the immediate urgent need first - to make himself stronger.
She currently has only one weapon, and that is the free armament distributed by the guild: a mechanical arm that can be transformed into a hand/gun. Of course, if she wanted to, her arm could still be turned into a two-meter-long narrow knife, but the lethality would be limited.
The mercenary guild only provided free weapons once, and if she wanted to pay for anything else in the future, she didn't have time to find someone to customize the weapons.
An Ling suggested to her in the Bubble Bobble watch: "Zero can buy weapons at Baker Machinery Store. Although the price is not cheap, there are the most complete models and styles."
Baker Machinery? Zero immediately remembered where it was.
Standing on the bustling commercial street in the center of Baisha City, she couldn't help feeling that this was the second time she set foot in the main city after leaving the Third Research Institute.
The bustling crowd and the feasting society have not changed at all.
The first time she was in ragged clothes, she was drooling while looking at the sky-high robot.
The second time, although she still can't afford it... but at least she has the confidence to walk in.
Walking into the automatic door, the salesman in charge of reception quickly greeted him.
"Welcome to Baker Machinery! What do customers want to buy? We have a new batch of female robotic arms that can be transformed into pink parasols!"
Zero pupil earthquake, and this design! Simply genius!
She took her eyes away from the lace parasol with difficulty, gritted her teeth: "I want weapons!" The
voice fell, and the two rows of armed robots that were standing against the wall all stood at attention, and turned towards her.
The strong metal arms, ready to be turned into blades and guns, seemed to sell themselves to her.
The customers in the store were terrified.
"The electronic virus has invaded?"
"What happened to these model robots."
All the staff gathered around: "It's alright, it's the exhibition mode that started, I'm sorry to startle everyone, continue to pick and pick..."
Zero Of course, she would not choose to buy a bodyguard robot. She already has Sid, Dongdong and Dabao.
"I want to see the assembleable weapons."
"Okay, come with me."
Although each value has increased by 10 points, her physical fitness is still much worse than that of ordinary people.
There are forty or fifty kinds of weapon systems on display at Baker Machinery, which is dizzying.
Zero took a fancy to a particle cannon, which could blow up half the house with one shot, but she couldn't pick it up... She
also liked a steel-tooth chainsaw, which is simply the king of melee combat, still can't pick it up...
Zero mood If you're down, it's better to buy a box of hands. Lei, smash every enemy?
At this time, Dabao suddenly reminded her in the earphone.
"Zero, you can take a look at Weapon No. 01 in the third row from the left."
She followed the serial number to find it, and found that it was a small submachine gun. The whole body was platinum gold, and it matched her mechanical arm very well.
The salesman explained in a timely manner: "Customers have a good eye. This is a new product that we launched last month. It is specially developed for women. It is a rare multi-functional lightweight weapon that is compatible with various styles of robotic arms. "
Zero tried it out, it's a little heavy, but it's acceptable, you should be able to get used to it after a few days of hard practice.
She looked at the manual carefully: the M525 variable multi-purpose submachine/gun can fire three different special bullets [tracking bullets, gas bullets, flame bullets], the only disadvantage is that the lethality is not too large.
Gas bombs and flame bombs can be used for group attacks, tracking bombs deal with distant enemies, and ordinary charge bombs are the king of melee combat.
Zero was overjoyed: "I want it!"
She hurriedly paid at the cashier, and then received a small bag from the salesman.
"This is..."
"It's a gift, I hope you will come again."
Inside is a stack of pink bunny stickers that can be attached to the robotic arm and gun barrel.
"Thank you!!"
After coming out of Baker Machinery, Ling went to the convenience store again to buy food, Sid's condensate, Dongdong's dog food, additional furniture and daily necessities.
With a big bag and a small bag, she sat on the huge white stairs where no one stayed, and watched the advertisements on the high-rise buildings not far away.
"Dabao, I have an old question I want to ask you."
"Why don't the government forces go to clear the aberrations themselves, but let the mercenaries go instead?"
Anling, who was far away in the sky, was silent for a moment, he lowered his head, his eyes pierced Overlooking this absurd city through countless monitors and cameras.
"Because the Aberrations are not the government's primary enemy, their goal alone is not 'peace'."
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