It was quite enjoyable to watch Lei Dalu eat.
One did not even need to watch the food. The noises alone were enough to whet one's appetite.
He slurped the noodles, chewed the garlic with a "kacha kacha" sound, and gulped down the water tank full of cold water with a "clang clang clang clang" sound. He burped to his heart's content, and finally, with a "crash" sound, he piled the empty bowls into a pile and slammed the table with a "pa pa" sound. "Boss, are you done? Give me another bowl!"
It had only been more than half an hour since they walked into the small restaurant in a corner of Star Lord Temple.
But Lei Dalu had already gobbled up sixteen super large bowls of meat noodles and all the cucumbers in the restaurant.
"Old Bai, you want another bowl? The broth here is really good! "
Lei Dalu grinned at Bai Kaixin, who was sitting on his opposite side.
Bai Kaixin was not happy at all.
He seemed to have never been happy in his entire life.
He was tall and thin, no shorter than Lei Dalu, but only one-third of Lei Dalu's weight. His face was sallow, and his two long white eyebrows were drooping down like the Chinese character '八', reaching the corners of his eyes.
He always looked like a terminally ill patient who had just been informed of his diagnosis. Even if he was laughing aloud, people would be worried that he would burst into tears in the next second.
With a gloomy face, Bai Kaixin watched Lei Dalu eat two cloves of garlic as if they were snacks in boredom. Finally, he could not help but ask.
"I've always been very curious. Why are you always so happy no matter where you are?"
"Right at this second, 'Gold Horn', which cost you more than half of your life savings and owed the bank and the three Cultivation sects a lot of money, has been reduced to a pile of garbage, trapping us in the desolate corner at the edge of the cosmos.
"What you eat. It's just the coarsest meat noodles. Look. The hair on the meat is not even clean yet!
"But the feeling you give me is … You seem to have appeared in the sky of the most luxurious hotel in Heavenly Saints City on a fully-armed, brand-new warship. You are enjoying a seafood dinner that costs five hundred thousand Flying Star Coins, with two beautiful women sitting on your thighs, and fifty billion in your pocket! "
Lei Dalu said carelessly, "What else?"
"Gold Horn won't come back to life even if I'm miserable and heartbroken, will it?"
"Old Bai, it's not that I want to nag at you, but everyone should come out and cultivate. The most important thing is to be happy. Don't be so worried all the time, okay? In the past, we didn't have Gold Horn. Even if we used an armed transport ship, didn't we still run amok? "
"On the bright side, at least we've completed our mission and slaughtered all of those bastards, right?"
Bai Kaixin said coldly, "Don't mention missions to me."
"At first, we were driving Gold Horn, which was armed to the teeth, with a ship full of crystals and magical equipment. I'm preparing to compete for the Myriad Waves Region's All-Realm Guard Mission. Once I succeed, I won't have to worry about it for the next three to five years. "
"And now?"
"The starship was almost scrapped. Their spiritual energy is running out, and their magical equipment is rotten to the core! "
"Yes. The Heavenly Saints Alliance has bounties for the space pirates of Storm Prison. But most of the bounties have been given to Fengyu Zhong. What we've encountered this time is merely his son, who is new to the business. The bounties are pathetically small!"
"We've suffered a great loss this time!"
Lei Dalu gnashed his teeth. He grinned and said, "Don't stare at me with such a 'heartbroken' look as if I'm forcing you into prostitution. I'm forcing you to be a hero! I remember that you were the first one to jump out and yell when you saw what happened on 'Chicken Feather' just now. You said that you were going to kill all the space pirates. You were so cool, awesome, and domineering. Those who didn't know better might have thought that you were the assault captain of our Exo Society! What? You've remembered that you are an advisor now? "
"And you. Don't pretend to be an iceberg beauty without saying anything."
Lei Dalu turned around and grinned at a corner of the restaurant. "Ye Lingdie, you were so mad that you almost stuffed the storm bolter into my nostrils. You said that if I didn't agree to the employment of a bag of rice, you would quit the Exo Society and fight the space pirates on your own! You said that, didn't you? You didn't miss a single word, did you? My nostrils can't breathe yet! "
In the corner, a woman who looked like a dry leaf was sitting upright. She was cold, quiet, and emitting a strong aura that kept strangers away.
She didn't perform any stealth techniques, but for some reason, it was easy for people to overlook her existence. She was like a dry leaf in a forest that was right in front of people's eyes, but they couldn't see her at all.
Ye Lingdie, the woman who looked like a dry leaf, was cleaning her gun.
Countless components that were as tiny as grains of sand were jumping rapidly in her hands that were as thin as eagle claws. They assembled into gun units of different shapes and disintegrated in the blink of an eye.
Ye Lingdie raised her eyebrow and glanced at him casually. Then, she lowered her head again and immersed herself in her own world.
Lei Dalu's nostrils flared. He tapped the table and said, "What kind of attitude is that? Do you still respect your captain? Boss, why aren't the noodles ready yet? Remember to add two servings of meat and coriander! "
Veins were bulging out of Bai Kaixin's temples. His eyelids were twitching violently, but he tried to be as calm as possible. "Alright. We all made the decision together. Let's not talk about that. The question is, what do we do next?
"Fengyu Zhong only has one son. He was beaten to a pulp by us. Not even his bones can be found. He will certainly go crazy when the news gets out."
Lei Dalu spat. "What's there to be scared of? He is an expert of Jin Dan, and I am an expert of Jin Dan, too. We can just fight. Do you think he has more balls than I do?"
"Don't flatter yourself," Bai Kaixin said coldly.
"Fengyu Zhong is a brutal man who has been on a rampage in the circle of space pirates for decades. The Holy League tried to hunt him down multiple times. They even sent out Half Step Yuanying, but he managed to escape every time. It is said that he had a lot of fortuitous encounters during his escape and is probably in the high level of the Core Formation Stage right now. Such a brutal man deserves to be called an expert of Jin Dan!
"Captain Lei, you are just in the beginning level of the Core Formation Stage, and you were beaten up by hundreds of people when you just entered the Core Formation Stage. You were heavily wounded, and your spiritual root exploded. It took you a long time to recover, but there are still hidden wounds in your body. I estimate that you will stay in the beginning level of the Core Formation Stage for the rest of your life.
"You are nothing but a 'bruiser' at best. What makes you think that you can compete with the real 'Jin Dan'?
"Storm Prison is one of the top twenty pirate gangs of the Flying Star Sector. There are a lot of bandits here. Fengyu Zhong will certainly try his best to strangle us when he is infuriated. We must be very careful when we travel in the sea of stars in the future. One moment of carelessness, and we will be killed by the space pirates in no time! "
Lei Dalu rubbed his eyebrows hard. He said solemnly, "The most important thing for a Cultivator is cleverness. A great man knows when to yield and when not to yield. The worst-case scenario is that we can hide in the Holy League's territory after we run back to the central space zone. We can disguise ourselves and pretend to be cowards. We can even repudiate our bank loans. Two birds with one stone!
"Let's talk about it later. Perhaps Fengyu Zhong would be killed by someone else the next day. Then, everything will be fine after the storm. Hahahaha! "
At this moment, the door of the small noodle house was kicked open with a bang, and a figure rolled in like a whirlwind.
It was a white-haired, vigorous old man whose shoulders were as broad as a door plank.
One could easily tell that he was bad-tempered and stubborn. His eyes, which were as big as a bull's egg, were rolling, as if he were going to pick a fight with a young man at any moment. He was the kind of man who wanted to prove that he was still vigorous.
In front of the old man, Lei Dalu was no longer as heartless as he usually was. He smiled obsequiously. "Uncle Xiong, how is Gold Horn?"
Xiong Tao was the director of magical equipment and the chief refiner of the Great Horn Exo Society. He was in charge of everything from the flying swords to the Crystal Suit.
Xiong Tao sat on the bench, which was cracking so hard that it was squeaking. He said gloomily, "Damn it. Eighty percent of the units are seriously damaged. Even the bridge is leaky. It is impossible to repair it in such a desolate place. We have to drag it to the orbit of the Thousand Sails Domain and find a factory of a major sect to repair it."
"However, the Thousand Sails Domain is thousands of kilometers away from here. Gold Horn seems to be on its last breath. We cannot perform a space jump. Otherwise, both the passengers and the starship will be blown into smithereens!
"Thankfully, Storm Prison's starship has been captured by us. We can dismantle a lot of components to repair it. I estimate that we will be back on the road in three days.
"Right now, the most critical thing is that we are short of hands.
"In the last round of gunfire, our spiritual shield was blown apart and hit the main maintenance workshop precisely. More than half of the refiners were killed in the explosion!
"A ragged starship that is on the verge of collapse, with two thirds of the refiners missing, is going to arrive at the Thousand Sails Domain successfully after more than a month in the surging tides? It's not going to be easy! "
Lei Dalu looked at Bai Kaixin and said, "Old Bai, didn't I tell you that we are in dire need of hands and that we should recruit here? Why? You didn't recruit any refiners? "
Before Bai Kaixin opened his mouth, Xiong Tao had already said, "Experienced refiners are not so easy to recruit!
"In such a desolate place, although the residents make a living by recycling debris from ancient battlefields, they are the maintainers of the civil level at best. They are still far away from being real refiners!"
Bai Kaixin interjected. "Besides, captain, you asked us to make it clear to them again and again that we have pissed off Storm Prison and that joining the Great Horn Exo Society would be extremely dangerous. How many people would dare to sign up after we told them that?"
Lei Dalu said, somewhat embarrassed, "Of course, we had to make it clear to them. We are asking for death by pretending to be heroes. We can't blame other people for that. However, they are not obliged to suffer the same fate as us. Wouldn't it be a shame if they were killed by Storm Prison's vengeance for no good reason? The most important thing for a Cultivator is to be honest. We can't do such a scam. "
Bai Kaixin sighed and said, "That's right. However, after we made it clear to them, only a few idiots and a few old foxes at the end of their rope were willing to sign up. They were lucky enough to have two arms. How could they possibly recruit any experts?"
Xiong Tao sniffed and said, "But an 'expert' came to my place. He was young and naive, but he bragged about himself more than anybody else. He claimed that he had been wandering at the edge of the cosmos since he was a child, that he had been taught by an eccentric person, that he had been hit by a shooting star, and that he had eaten a crimson fruit. All in all, his spiritual root had been awakened after all his adventures, and that he was a self-taught super refiner!
"However, when I gave him a Star Gyroscope and asked him to repair it, the boy was dumbfounded and claimed that he had never seen such a thing before.
"A Star Gyroscope is a very common piece of navigation magical equipment in the Flying Star Sector. Even if he doesn't know how to butcher a pig, he should've seen a pig run before. But the boy was dumbfounded and scratching his head. 'Super'? I wouldn't have believed him! "
Lei Dalu couldn't help but laugh. "What happened in the end? Did Uncle Xiong drive the boy away?"
"He didn't."
Xiong Tao gnashed his teeth in anger. "The wild boy was not bluffing. His spiritual root has indeed been awakened. He is a Cultivator, and his hands are very fast. It seems that he must've had some fortuitous encounters. He is capable of dismantling, cleaning, and polishing the simple magical equipment. We are seriously short of hands right now.
"I'm telling you this because I want to tell you that such an 'expert from the countryside' is already the best mechanic that we've recruited in this place. With such a team, it will be all up to his luck if he wants to return to the Thousand Sails Domain smoothly!"
"That'll do."
A carefree smile appeared on Lei Dalu's face again. He scratched his nose and said, "I don't have any merits except for my luck, which has always been good."
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