Commander (Brother Lu) seeking (Identity revelation) progress +1+1+1
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Two days of adjustment time passed in a blink of an eye, and there was one piece of information was obtain from the sorted out documents, and it was almost certain—— The sand cocoon grows in the hinterland of the desert, in a low-lying place.
Some people say there is an oasis there, while others say it is just a mirage.
No matter what it was said, Lu Liran intended to charter an airship and fly directly into the center of the desert.
This time, his system mission goal was only to survive for three days, and did not force himself to find a way out, so Lu Liran planned to let the contracted airship stay on the escape route he planned in advance.
Once he found enough sand cocoons and satisfied the mission’s three-day survival requirement, he would head to where the airship was and board it right away.
The leased airship navigation company belongs to the Xian family.
The Xian Family’s merchant fleet itself is a group of airship fleets, so it’s also developing the airship rental business, which has just started. Coincidentally, Lu Liran rented Xian’s airship this time, and even more coincidentally, Xian Yu was in charge of the ship business.
The lease and use of each airship must go through strict reporting and screening before the lease can be approved. Therefore, if Lu Liran wants to rent an airship, he cannot escape submitting an approval to Xian Yu.
The rental price of an airship is 10,000 star coins per hour. Lu Liran plans to rent the first day and the fifth day, which is the last day.
——Five days is the longest time limit Lu Liran gave himself. No matter whether he finds the sand cocoon within five days, he will return and make other adjustments before coming back again.
The price for two days is 480,000 star coins, plus the service fee.
The service fee includes such trivial details as declaration of routes, flight operations, maintenance, and checkpoints.
If the formalities are not completed, it will be a black flight. Not only will it be involved in legal liabilities, but it is more likely to be shot down directly as an UFO or an invading airship. The Xian family General Aviation Company has contracted all the troublesome business in the middle, and it is a one-stop price of one hundred thousand star coins.
The sum of everything before and after is 580,000 star coins. It is such a high price to go into and out of the desert once, and there is no guarantee of survival.
Lu Liran’s savings shrank severely.
After Xian Yu discovered Lu Liran’s plan to charter a flight, he immediately contacted him.
“Brother Lu, why don’t you treat this fee as the Xian family sponsoring your live broadcast! When the time comes for the live broadcast, you can just give the big logo of our Xian family Airship a close-up, hehe, for three seconds! It would be more perfect if you can take a circle-shot a bit of the interior of the airship, how about it?” Xian Yu proposes interaction.
If it wasn’t for the great nebula explosion in the interstellar, which caused their main merchant ship project to run aground, and their funds were somewhat beyond their means, the Xian family large fleet of airships could only sit idle—— but even if its idle, they still have to spend a lot of money on maintenance every day. It’s like raising a bunch of idiots.
Xian Yu had a quick mind, so he thought that instead of keeping the airships idle, it would be better to set up a General Aviation Company and lease these idle airships.
Now this business has just taken shape, and it lacks exposure. Apart from the common billboard promotion, it also needs some physical airship implants to have a publicity effect.
Lu Liran’s live broadcast room is a mutually beneficial choice.
“Sponsorship?” Lu Liran frowned. He also knew something about the Xian family’s merchant fleet, but the traffic in his live broadcast room is actually not that high, and the average only popularity is less than 100,000, which is far from reaching the level of business cooperation with the Xian family, “Inappropriate.”
“Inappropriate? Brother Lu, wait, I haven’t finished yet.” Xian Yu was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized, does brother Lu think that the resources of the two do not match?
Indeed, if the Xian family wanted to find an anchor to bring traffic, he could definitely find those three S-level veteran anchors, with stable traffic and professional skills.
But Xian Yu felt that the home base of those three anchors and the airships his family wanted to bring were not in the same dimension; there was a wall.
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He scratched the back of his head and called out to Lu Liran: “Actually, apart from providing sponsorship, I have a small request. A group of merchant fleet from the Xian family have entered the Sarba Desert.”
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Lu Liran interrupted him, and said coldly: “My advice is, stay away from the Salba Desert, and don’t try to conquer it.”
Xian Yu paused, he lowered his eyes and smiled helplessly. In fact, he had already guessed in his heart the answer Lu Liran would give from the attitude shown by the other party in his live broadcast, and sure enough.
He looked at Lu Liran, he nodded and said: “I understand.”
“However, the Xian family is still very happy to provide sponsorship, not only this time, in the future, Brother Lu will surely need to use the airship in the live broadcast, and the Xian family General Aviation Company hopes to have the opportunity to appear on the scene.”
“It’s not entirely because of my personal factors, but because of my forecast for the future development and traffic of Brother Lu’s live broadcast. We believe that the cooperation we have facilitated is an equal cooperative relationship of complete mutual benefit.” Xian Yu looked at Lu Liran seriously.
“The conversation I’m having with Lu right now is out of being the head of the Xian family, not as a fan.”
Lu Liran was silent for two seconds, then pulled the corner of his mouth: “You have good vision.”
After hearing his words, Xian Yu knew that the cooperation was settled. He breathed a sigh of relief, and just about to say a happy cooperation, he heard Lu Liran say again: “In this case, I will add an additional piece of advice to the Merchant Fleet.”
Xian Yu’s eyes lit up, and he immediately looked at Lu Liran, holding his breath expectantly.
“Don’t trust a bounty hunter’s words 100%.” Lu Liran said, with a little sarcasm, “Especially a bounty hunter who claims to be a guide.”
As the name suggests, bounty hunters are the most unreliable people who can do anything for money and can immediately defect for the greater good.
Xian Yu was taken aback, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and immediately, he nodded without saying a word and said: “Okay, thank you Brother Lu, I will notify the fleet right away.”
Lu Liran nodded slightly and hung up the communication.
Since Xian Yu didn’t ask him to be a guide, he must have found a temporary guide.
Most bounty hunters are unwilling to step into the Salba Desert, but there are still very few people who are willing to become desert guides for huge bounties. That group of people, presumably, found such type of people.
Even so, the desert guide never enters the desert hinterland, but only leads the team on the edge of the desert.
It took a lot of effort for the Xian family’s merchant fleet to find a desert guide, who claimed to have entered Salba, and even claimed to be able to lead them into and out of the hinterland of Salba alive.
Xian Yu’s younger brother, Xian Dan, personally led a team into the desert, hoping to open up a new business route from the desert.
After receiving the news from Xian Yu, Xian Dan frowned slightly, and looked at the middle-aged guide who was walking in the front.
The man’s skin was as rough as old tree bark, his big hands were vigorous and full of scars, his eyes were as sharp as a falcon, he didn’t look like the bragging-type, he should have some ability.
Xian Dan took the reminder to heart, and looked at the guide with more scrutiny and hesitation.
The other end.
In the famous slums of Desolate Star.
Under the tip off news of his Chief of Staff, Bronte, Ke Ji came to this clean small building.
There’s even a small vegetable garden planted in front of the small building, which has a breath of life, and is very out-of-tune with the dirty and messy surroundings.
Supposedly, his partner is here.
Ke Ji stood in front of the door a little nervously, the palms hanging by his sides unconsciously clenched into fists, and he didn’t raise his hand to ring the doorbell for a long while.
His video communicator was still on, and Bronte laughed loudly on the other end of the communicator: “Wow, are you really that shy and nervous?”
As if seeing some big joke, the chief of staff grinned, not showing his usual stable and reliable appearance.
Ke Ji pursed his lower lip, but did not refute.
——That alone made Bronte’s mouth open, realizing how much their commander cared about this moment.
Bronte put away his smile, and lowered his voice slightly: “You know the news is only half-certain, don’t you? Differences in regions and time-intervals will affect whether they still live here. Maybe the ones you’re looking for are not here.”
He reminded Ke Ji and hoped that the other party would not expect too much.
The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, and disappointment after a desperate effort can easily defeat a determined person.
Ke Ji was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly: “I know.”
After he finished speaking, he finally raised his hand and rang the doorbell.
Hearing the loud ringing of the doorbell, Bronte became tense for some reason, subconsciously breathing lightly.
Half a minute passed, and there was no movement in the room.
Bronte looked apologetically at Ke Ji in the communicator, but saw that Ke Ji was still standing straight in front of the door, and pressed it again persistently.
This time, there was a sound of a heavy object falling to the ground from inside the door, followed by a rude response from a man cursing.
Bronte’s eyelids twitched, this could never be the second young master of the Lu family.
Although he had never dealt with the other party directly, he had heard of that person.
He had a bad temper—— people who have been on the same team with the second young master of the Lu family joked, saying that the other party was good at everything, but when opening his mouth, he was not polite and could even pissed people off.
Even so, he was not hated.
The person Lu Liran pissed the most is the platoon commander of the mobile unit, but Bronte saw that every time the platoon commander mentioned Lu Liran, he always waved his hand with a smile, and then praised Lu Liran as the best spear in the Commander’s team.
Such a person doesn’t sound like the cursing guy in the house.
Bronte saw that the man in the communicator’s eyes darkened, and his expressionless face looked like a prelude to a storm.
The chief of staff’s eyelids twitched again.
Soon, the curses of the man in the small building came to the door. The white-painted door was pushed opened with a “click, clang”, and a skinny man reek of alcohol emerged from inside, with stubble all over his face, and a pair of dead fish eyes drooping, he leaned against the door frame: “Who are you looking for?”
Ke Ji glanced into the room, his face suddenly became extremely ugly. He grabbed the collar of the man in front of him with one hand, and slammed him on the door frame with a “bang”.
In the bedroom facing the main door, there was an obvious cub bed, but at the moment it was full of wine bottles and dirty clothes, and there was vomit on the clothes.
The skinny man who was grabbed was thrown into a daze, unable to react for a while.
“Where are the man and the child who originally lived here?” Ke Ji raised the drunk man in front of him high, his hand locked the man’s throat like iron cuffs, and his hoarse and gloomy voice squeezed out every single word from between his lips and teeth.
The drunk man was strangled until he rolled his eyes, he kicked his feet indiscriminately, almost unable to breathe, let alone answer.
Seeing this, Bronte quickly shouted: “He can’t hold his breath anymore, can you calm down ah? Ke Ji!”
Ke Ji let go of his hand slightly, the drunk man took a long breath, he coughed, and the smoky smell of alcohol came to his nostrils.
It was also Chen Duan’s bad luck. He knew that Lu Liran’s live broadcast was popular, and he knew that the other party got a lot of money just by watching the rewards in the live broadcast room, and he would definitely not come back again, so he occupied this small building with confidence.
As a result, he had just come in with his front feet, and before he had been inside for two days, Ke Ji found him with his back feet.
Chen Duan’s face was flushed red, and he almost couldn’t catch his breath.
All the subordinates in the room gathered behind him now, he looked up, and Ke Ji was alone in front of him, it was unknown if it was because of alcohol, but he immediately stopped being afraid, and asked irritable with a rough throaty voice: “Ahem, who the hell are you?”
“Where are the people who originally lived inside?” Ke Ji asked again, his eyes coldly sweeping over the few people behind Chen Duan, who were foolishly about to move, and when he looked at then, those people suddenly did not dare to move.
Several of Chen Duan’s men swallowed. For some reason, after being glanced at by the man on the other side, they felt that their head and neck were prickly and cold, as if a sharp knife was hanging over. Their hair stood on end, and their legs trembled, they didn’t dare to approach him.
Chen Duan heard the messy footsteps of his subordinates retreating one by one behind him, getting farther and farther away from him, and finally jumped out of the window and ran away one by one.
“…” Chen Duan scolded their mother in his heart.
Ke Ji didn’t speak any more, instead he slammed Chen Duan against the door frame hard with his backhand, and with his elbow resting on the other’s neck, as if Chen Duan’s neck would be broken by the door frame if he exerted enough force.
Chen Duan let out a scream, the rough wooden thorns on the door frame rubbed his neck until he bled, even though the alcohol made him emboldened, it made him completely sober, and his whole body trembled with fear.
“You’re looking for, you’re looking for Lu Liran, right! You’re looking for him, right!” Chen Duan screamed, afraid that if he was a second late in speaking, his neck would be broken by the man in front of him.
He wailed in his heart, why every time he bumped into the three words “Lu Liran”, it was his neck that was unlucky, and the people who came were more vicious than the last.
Chen Duan kept yelling: “He and his cub moved out ten days ago! I didn’t do anything! They are all fine! Better than anyone here!”
Hearing this, Ke Ji let go of the shackles a little, and looked at him coldly: “Where did they move?”
“How do I know!” Chen Duan was taken aback by the question, and subconsciously replied, and soon Ke Ji’s face darkened again.
He rolled his eyes and quickly added: “But I know he’s going to the southern desert! Salba! It is the Sarba Desert!”
Ke Ji’s eyes loosened for a moment, and Chen Duan immediately shouted: “Really! How dare I lie to you!”
Bronte recalled some information obtained during the previous investigation, and immediately said: “I heard that there is a merchant fleet in the Sarba Desert. Lu Liran has been directing missions to earn commissions, maybe he is really in that merchant fleet.”
Hearing this, Ke Ji didn’t respond to Bronte, but just took a deep look at Chen Duan, and said coldly: “Get out of his house.”
He let go.
Chen Duan fell on the steps of the door like a puddle of mud, and when he raised his eyes, he bumped into Ke Ji’s cold blue eyes, as if he had fallen into a glacier, and rolled down the steps with hands and feet in fright, and ran away quickly.
Ke Ji turned around and strode into the airship, and said to the pilot: “Let’s go to Salba.”
Sunnyshies: This arc is the start of the real adventure, where nature will have the upper hand, and human lives will linger at the tip of the knife. There will be death, and some human vs nature action, much more intense than the glacier arc. This is also the arc where you’ll see how ridiculous Ke Ji is, haha, he himself admitted to it!
Really wanna save chapters, but my hands and my eyes works in tandem to betray my plans!
+1 wuwuwuwu
+2 my hands are faster than my brain im crying
Oh the advantages of someone with good body control 😂 frick that I nearly broke 5 bones yesterday doing a ballerina spin (I was meant to be doing netball ahem 360 spin ahem)
Wait, so they have never exchanged names?
… he mentioned his name at the start, and every livestream announced it… you would think there would be some level of connection formed 😭
They exchanged names, they even felt that it was coincidence…but the gender doesn’t match, and the anxious Ke Ji doesn’t really thought much about it. After all, Ke Ji always thought Lu Liran always knew it was him that night and he really didn’t think about Lu Liran forgetting about that night. So yeah, even if Ke Ji suspected something, he still need some critical clues to confirm all his guesses….hahaha, that’s why this arc is so funny.
Sometimes i want our ml to take a close look besides him like bro just look LOOK
He might as well be BLIND at this point smh XD
I think he’s deaf too he needs help bestie we have to call a doctor :'(
Exactly! Also with a side of short-term memory loss, or amnesia because he didn’t even BOTHER trying to investigate Lu Liran, or his cub, WHO HAS HIS EXACT SAME EYE COLOR, which apparently is a very specific trait, to HIS FAMILY.
I mean, he’s really blind, but not that blind. When he saw the cub, he quickly realized that it was, if not his child, then one of his relatives. That’s why he asked Boss Lou where the baby’s omega parent was. Apparently, he assumed that the child did not belong biologically to boss Lu, but decided not to claim him in order not to harm the child. Children need stability at this age and it is clearly visible how the cub is attached to his “dad”.
very true, very true at least he’s a good dad but I won’t necessarily say he isn’t blind either, like ain’t no way in the glacier chapter when they talked about why KJ was out at the desolate star he said “I could always recognize him at a glance” mate LOOK BESIDE YOU, YOUR WIFE IS RIGHT NEXT TO YOU💀
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Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
I thought he’d understand it since there are more than enough clues about Lu Liran and his being being the people he’s looking for but…since it is a novel hehehe
Duhh I thought he at least would ask to that Cheng Duan or whatever the shit man about how that Omega looks or something cause like…bro….damn…Cheng Duan would immediately say “he has a scarred face” and bam here you know the truth I suppose
».. where the airship was and board it away.« right away
».. but it is more likely to be shot down directly as a UFO or..« an UFO (? since it’s a vowel. But then again, you say “an NPC” and “an S-Rank” and till today I don’t understand why :’D)
»The conversation I’m having with Lu right now..« with you / Mr. Lu / Brother Lu (? it sounds so unfinished)
».. he was not polite and could even pissed people off.« piss people off
».. from the Xian family have entered the Sarba Desert.« & »It is the Sarba Desert!« & »I heard that there is a merchant fleet in the Sarba Desert.« all of them “Salba”
Okay… KJ’s part just makes me facepalm nonstop lol Why is even Bronte so far away from the point? lol I thought cubs are suuuuuper rare there. So both are named Lu Liran, both have a cub, he saw at least one of them and they look familiar, and KJ smelt that familiar pheromone scent in the middle of nowhere. Why is it still not klicking in his brain? lolol Are my expectations too high? Am I too ignorant to how people in such a situation could react, bc I’m in the know? xD
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
thanks!!
That kinda warning doesn’t make me happy at all. Dammit. I hope it’s not too harsh.