Chapter 41 - Designated Task
Chapter 41 - Designated Task
The Collection Department of the Space-Time Administration Bureau is 378 time coordinate points (days) away from Ning Fei completing the "Supermodel's Last Wish Collection Mission".
As the door of the transport cabin opened, Ning Fei walked out. Almost at the same time, a floating light screen automatically lit up in front of him, and a magnetic male voice also reached his ears: "Welcome back, Ning Fei. You have successfully completed the 'Emergency Assistance: Female President's Debt Collection Task', and the task took 350 time coordinate points. This task belongs to the emergency assistance category and can obtain three times the luck points. Now I will start to settle with you..."
"Ning Fei!"
An acquaintance came over to say hello: "I saw you finish an emergency assistance mission in the broadcast again. You are really quick. You clean up other people's mess faster than you can complete your own mission. How do you do it?"
"I'm lucky. It turns out that the debt collector and the time traveler were too close, so he softened his heart." Ning Fei smiled, "After I went in, every time I scolded the debt collector, it would provoke the time traveler to try harder. The more arrogant I was to the debt collector, the more the time traveler hated him and the harder he fought. It always worked."
"Uh, then our colleague didn't hit you? So he just cooperated and got scolded by you?"
"What can she do to me?" Ning Fei shrugged. "She can't be cruel to the time travelers, let alone me. She can't scold me or drive me crazy. Apart from calling me a lunatic, she can't do anything else."
"Awesome, you're the one who always finds the right remedy for the problem." The acquaintance said happily, "Aren't you afraid that colleague will trip you up in the future?"
"If she has the ability, she should complete the task by herself first, and don't send an urgent request for help in the system. Almost all the rewards for this task have been sent to me, do you blame me?" Ning Fei replied calmly, "Besides, she is not the only one who hates me, so it doesn't matter if there is one more."
"Hahahaha, you're right!" the acquaintance said happily, "Oh, by the way, a new emergency rescue mission appeared a few days ago, and the estimated reward points are very high. You have to give it a try? Are you saving points for your vacation again?"
"I'm saving up. There's a place I want to go... But you said this mission has a very high number of points. That must be because the time traveler and the previous debt collector messed it up so badly that the possibility of paying off the debt is already very low, otherwise they wouldn't give such a high commission." Ning Fei was puzzled. "Isn't there someone who specializes in this kind of difficult cases? No one has taken it for several days?"
"I don't know if anyone has signed up, but the mission is still on the list, in the top few rows." The acquaintance replied, "Do you want to take it?"
"I don't really want to answer it. I like big risks and big returns. I don't like too big risks where the returns are likely to be wasted. And I don't want to work continuously. I need to take a few days off first, you know..." Ning Fei said, and found that his mailbox was flashing on the light screen next to him. I didn’t notice it when I was scrolling through the task summary just now, but it’s now obvious.
Ning Fei clicked it casually, took a quick look, and was stunned for a moment.
An acquaintance noticed his movements: "What's going on?"
Ning Fei: "For the emergency assistance mission you mentioned, is the debt collector named Chong Lin?"
Acquaintance: "...Really. Oh, by the way, it suddenly occurred to me that you have assisted him before? And then he started to complain to you in public as soon as he came out of the portal, saying that you are completely inhumane and immoral?"
Ning Fei: "Yes, it was him. The reason why this mission was not taken by others may be because he assigned it to me."
Acquaintance: “…Huh?”
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【Last wish proposed by: Dong Lingyan
Brief introduction: His name is Youheng, and he is the son of the governor of Yunfu County in the border area. When Dong Lingyan was ten years old, his entire family was killed by foreigners overnight, and only Dong Lingyan managed to escape. Fearing being hunted down, Dong Lingyan lived in hiding for a long time and worked hard to make progress, hoping to avenge his family with the help of the country after passing the imperial examination. However, he was involved in a power struggle and eventually died at the hands of his political enemies, and failed to achieve his goal.
Wish: To avenge his people, kill the murderer, drive away foreign enemies, and make the political enemies who killed him suffer a fate worse than death. 】
"Isn't this a very clear goal?" Ning Fei was a little confused after scanning the information. "This has led to a complete failure. What on earth are the time traveler and Chong Lin doing?"
His subordinate AI responded: "According to your request, the simplified version is shown to you. Do you want to view the detailed version?"
"No. I know the detailed version is just another clichéd revenge novel, just a failed version. I don't want to waste time. I might as well go to the scene and see the actual situation." Ning Fei replied, "Let's set the identity."
A list of characters is listed on the light screen, and the corresponding points required for each list are different. People with high status and great power are more likely to help time travelers, but the points they pay are sometimes too high to cover the expenses; people with lower status and marginalized backgrounds require fewer points, but those without money and power may not be able to help.
Ning Fei had his own preferred identity type, but before choosing, he still asked, "What identity is Chonglin using?"
"Son of Prime Minister Li Bingren." The subordinate AI replied, "Dong Lingyan is from the Second Prince's faction, and the Prime Minister is from the First Prince's faction."
"Tsk, you want to be an insider? Don't you think about your own weight and whether you can handle such an identity?" Ning Fei said, "Design me an identity... as a retainer of the Second Prince."
This status is not high, so fewer points are required, but it is easy to get close to the time traveler and his superiors. Ning Fei never wastes points on this kind of thing, and this time the mission feels fishy, so Ning Fei is even more reluctant to spend points to ruin his identity.
"Identity generated," the subordinate AI responded, "Now start selecting subordinate settings."
A more complex settings selection panel appears. Those who see it for the first time will definitely be dazzled.
Some of the settings are purely material, such as the world's large amount of currency, special designated environments, information materials, weapons, etc. Others are skills or attributes, such as customizable appearance, language skills, martial arts, and even superpowers... In short, it's still the same principle: the rarer something is in this world, the more expensive it is. Especially for magic and supernatural powers that go beyond the world's settings, the price can skyrocket.
Of course, if we move to a world where magic and supernatural powers already exist, the prices of these skills will drop a lot and return to normal levels.
"There aren't those messy superpowers in this world." Ning Fei still adhered to the principle of not wasting things if they are not necessary, and replied, "No need for any special additional settings, just give me the average conditions of a retainer."
"Okay." The subordinate AI replied, "The three-day guide has been prepared for you. When would you like to set off?"
"Let's go now. I have a bad feeling about this crappy mission. If I could only reject one request for help every 30 days, I wouldn't even bother going." Ning Fei sneered, "The sooner you go, the sooner you can return. The worst that can happen is that you quickly admit that the mission failed. Anyway, this little money can be regarded as throwing it into space."
"The transporter has been reserved for you. Go to Gate A-3582 to get there." The subordinate AI responded, "Please do not discard space junk at will."
"Got it." Ning Fei walked towards the door of his little nest, "You've also learned to tell jokes. It's quite humorous to use this voice to tell jokes in a serious manner."
The door slid silently open in front of him, and the attached AI said, "I wish you good luck in your work and a safe journey."
***
Ning Fei appeared in the second prince's mansion.
The robe he wore was simple, but much better than the coarse linen clothes worn by common people. His appearance and name remained the same, except that his hair had grown longer and was styled in the most common bun worn by scholars of that era, and he wore a black hair crown and a dark wooden hairpin. There is a sachet on her waist. Judging from the material and embroidery, it should not be expensive. Ning Fei quite likes the scent.
He checked himself over and soon began to wander about. No one questioned why a stranger suddenly appeared, and everyone treated him as a part of the place. There was also a "three-day guide" in his mind that constantly answered his questions, such as what the building in front of him was used for, where the road under his feet led to, and who the person in front of him was. As long as it is the knowledge that a "guest" should know, the "Three-Day Guidance" will reply to him.
But the guidance will not take the initiative to introduce, remind him of what is happening or about to happen elsewhere, or help him find the truth. Moreover, after three days, this guidance will completely disappear, and Ning Fei will have to explore on his own. Therefore, during these three days, Ning Fei had to ask and remember as much as possible what he should know, otherwise it would be very easy to be at a loss when the guidance disappeared - especially in this feudal dynasty without the Internet.
The "Three-Day Guidance" also has a function to contact another debt collector who has issued a request for help. But there are only three opportunities in total, each lasting no more than ten minutes, and can only be used within these three days. However, Ning Fei was not in a hurry to contact him now, but planned to familiarize himself with the environment first.
As he was walking in the Second Prince's Mansion, he met a steward. The guide gave a brief introduction to the steward. Ning Fei listened and walked forward to ask in a natural tone, "Steward Liu, have you seen Brother You Heng today?"
"Master Dong? I haven't seen him. I haven't seen Master Dong come to visit Your Highness in a few days." Manager Liu paused, and added jokingly, "However, it should be quite common to see Master Dong having fun with others in the market these days."
"Bringing people to have fun?" Ning Fei heard the contempt in his tone and followed his words, "He didn't come to consult with Your Highness from time to time, but went to have fun with others? It sounds quite eye-catching?"
"Of course not." Manager Liu smiled meaningfully and said slowly, "He seems to really want to take that foreign woman as his concubine, and even took her out to play and show her off. Although that foreign woman wore the clothes of our dynasty, her appearance and behavior were very different from those of a woman of our dynasty. Who couldn't see it? They even shouted loudly on the street. Who couldn't hear it?"
Ning Fei was a little confused: "...Ah? He and a foreign girl...?!"
"That's not true. I was also shocked when I first heard about it." Manager Liu looked around and lowered his voice, "But His Highness seems to know about this matter. No one cares about the foreign woman and her followers. I'm afraid it's difficult for others to make a comment."
Ning Fei thought of the key words he had just heard: "But even if he wants to marry her, the position of a co-wife is too ridiculous..."
"Who says it's not true?" Manager Liu snorted and laughed. "The news that he was going to get engaged to the Prime Minister's daughter was widely spread. If he dared to take a foreign girl as his equal wife, how could the Prime Minister just sit back and watch?"
——Not only women from other tribes, but even the Prime Minister’s daughter…? Aren’t these all the targets of the original Lord’s revenge?
Ning Fei cursed inwardly when he heard this.
——This is a fucking marriage, what’s the point of taking revenge! What kind of crap is this colleague doing?
Speak of the devil, and here comes the contact signal of colleague Chong Lin.
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