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Chapter 16 Are you called a mercenary?

"Feels good? Then congratulations."

"Let's talk about it in the evening, when the results will come out."

"Ah yes, David, you don't know yet, do you? The college entrance examination scores in this world are so fast! They don't even give people any buffer time!"

Buffer time——refers to a period of relaxation after the exam before the parents know the result. It is true that the receipt of the arrears catches up.

In Bize's original world, the college entrance examination has a buffer time. The few days after the exam and you don't know the results are the happiest time, especially when you tell your parents that you feel very stable, maybe you can let the parents With a relaxed tone, he made a request that he didn't dare to make in the past.

——But in this world, such happiness is gone!

It's just because the exam results are reviewed too quickly - that is the computing resources allocated by the Terra Heart sub-node, and then run and process with the full power of intelligent AI from all parties.

Then, the too huge amount of information was then handed over to the heart of Terra for integration, and a huge list was obtained.

That is the interstellar ranking of all the college entrance examination rooms on the entire earth at the same time, together with the examination results of the colony cities of the planets belonging to the Holy Terra Federation.

In such a list, Omo could be thrown away by thousands, let alone Bize who wrote indiscriminately and even handed in a blank paper.

They are all overwhelmed by names, and can only be searched by typing in the test number.

"You can look forward to the network fluctuations when the results are just released, and then ask your family to wait, that is also a buffer time."

Homa used a fork to draw meaningless lines on the clean plate.

"There's no buffer time there, it's not even enough time for a dream!" Bize said angrily, with the air of "how can someone like you understand the mood of our scumbags?" "It's almost called fantasy time." !"

"It doesn't matter what it's called. Do you think there is a college entrance examination in David's world?" Homa said, looking up at David who was just working hard.

It seems he enjoys the food in his new surroundings.

But when he heard the topic directly in front of him, David also raised his head, blinked his eyes in a daze, and swallowed the food in his mouth: "There are similar very important exams, but they can be completed in this way." The nature of the uniform time of the planet, no."

"It's not considered unified across the planet. There are several special zones whose time is staggered." Omer corrected habitually.

During his chats with David in the past few days, he has corrected many of the latter's inconsistencies in common sense, but the time is still short, and his understanding of the world should not be as good as that of Bize, who switches back and forth between aliens and earthlings.

But Homa can conclude that his IQ is higher than that of Bize, and it will not take long to integrate into this world, and he can have a lot of capable jobs, so that he will not receive social subsistence allowances like Bize——

——That's what he said, but he was already in the mercenary team, so the above considerations were quite unnecessary.

As for the inevitable dangers of being a mercenary. Omer glanced at David's prosthetic arm with a slightly different texture from yesterday, and the light green indicator light obviously installed on the back of his neck, and felt that this kind of consideration is really a lot the rest.

The other party seems to have long been accustomed to being in danger. Although the advice expressed between true friends will have enough strength, how to use this right is also a question that requires special caution as a true friend.

He naturally chose to keep silent.

After all, his adoptive father was also engaged in a dangerous occupation.

And think about himself again, his target: the executive department of the Two Realms Security Bureau, the armed department that has the most frequent contact with traversers, and it is also included in the list of the most dangerous departments among all the occupations covered by civil servants.

It turned out that everyone was the same, there was no difference.

The only one who is safe is Bize, who can’t even articulate his ideals. It’s not that he chose to be safe, but he hasn’t really understood the world in a bad state, and he can’t even articulate his ideals and dreams. .

[Can't say it] and [Nothing] are two concepts, the former is the unknown, and the latter is nothingness.

The unknown is far more interesting than nothingness, and Omer looks forward to the answers he will submit in the future.

For now, let's turn our attention to David.

"There are also special zones attached to the surface of the earth." Omer paused, thinking of the orphanage he had been in.

"Most of those special zones are gathering places of special races that are not suitable for directly mixing with surface residents. Because the special zone itself is like a different world, there is also a threshold for connecting with the information here, so the assessment time and information exchange are deliberately staggered. "

"Normally, you shouldn't be able to touch it, right?" David listened quite seriously, and he only had time to scoop up a spoonful of rice.

"A mercenary is not an ordinary job, do you think so?"

"Uh, indeed." David was a little embarrassed to be mentioned, because he had noticed that the style of his group in Night City did not apply here, and even the daily life of too many people. Life does not involve the concept of 'mercenary'.

It was precisely for this reason that he didn't call Mann again this time, but other people in the team, such as Rebecca, wanted to come, but he refused embarrassingly.

Ordinary mercenaries are fine, Rebecca's freedom inherited from her elder brother is considered a premature art for the citizens of Jiemen District.

And because the two brothers were still bachelors, he didn't even dare to invite Lucy.

Getting along with everyone in the team is like returning to Night City, but getting along with these two people seems to understand the world better,
In just a few days, his whole body has changed several times, and everyone in the team hopes that he will continue to maintain his current state.

David didn't know if it was everyone expressing dissatisfaction with the original him, but he did feel good. In the past, he used to aim at other people's goals. This time, no one gave him goals. He might have to Find a goal for yourself.

But he really didn't expect Aomer to take the initiative to mention the topic of mercenaries.

He even looked at himself and asked, "What is your understanding of mercenaries?"

"Accepting entrusted work, there will often be the use of force." David glanced at Bize, and still said the most extreme words, "When killing people."

Bize did react to these words, but it was not the reaction of rejection, disgust or fear that he had expected, but a very subtle reaction that hesitated to speak.

At the end of such a complex expression change, Bize chose to hold up the water glass beside him and remained silent.

"He might be thinking 'I didn't expect to be the only one who was a scumbag'." Ao Mo said wryly.

"Cough cough cough cough."

Judging by the choked reaction, David realized sadly that Omer had hit the mark.

"David, here is a hot piece of knowledge that I need to let you know, that is, although the mercenary industry is a profession that is far away from the citizens, it is not too far away."

As Omer said, he activated the terminal in his hand, and drew a webpage from it.

It was a video website, and he swiped through the categories and clicked on the live broadcast section, and saw the densely packed cover of the main live broadcast of the video.

"These," Omer pointed at the covers, "are all mercenaries."

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(End of this chapter)