He Ao happened to lack a translator, so he asked Orator to translate for him what these pirates were muttering.
After hearing this, Orator looked at He Ao with a strange expression, "These pirates said that you are 'Avatar of Nora'."
"What is Nora?"
He Ao is a little curious.
"Nora is Alano's legendary god of ocean, storm and thunder, and the main god in Alano's original mythology.
Legend has it that Nora will incarnate as a human and descend on Alano every once in a while, making the ocean calm and allowing fishermen to return home with a full load. The name Alano comes from this legend, which means "the place protected by Nora".
The king of the old Alano calls himself Avatar of Nora. "
Orator thought for a while, chatted a few words with the pirates on the side, and then suddenly realized and said to He Ao, "Balan has always called himself Avatar of Nora, his power also convinced the pirates. Now that you have killed Balan, all the pirates will think that you are more like Avatar of Nora, and you are real and Balan is fake."
Marine civilizations that live on islands or peninsulas and rely on the sea for their livelihood are generally most afraid of storms and thunder. Therefore, in the original myths of such civilizations, the God of the Sea or the God of Thunder is often one of the most important gods.
Alano's Poseidon legend is also combined with feudal rule. The king is the incarnation of Poseidon, and the fusion of divine power and monarchy is also a skill that ancient feudal rulers basically learned without a teacher.
After figuring this out, He Ao sighed, and then he asked Orator to ask the pirates if Balan put anything valuable on the ship.
Balan traveled lightly this time. All the valuable gold and silver jewelry was placed in the nest. There was nothing on Coal Ship. As for Transcendent Item, He Ao and Orator searched around and couldn't find even an ordinary Transcendent Item.
After all, Balan's foundation is still shallow, and there is basically no opportunity to enter Ruins to explore. Poor people are really poor. The only Transcendent Item is the Pirate Treasure Chest held by He Ao. Maybe this is one of the reasons why he gambled his life to rob Research Institute.
While He Ao and Orator were chatting with the pirates, "Hu Wen" had already put on a diving suit and jumped into the sea, hunting larger fish to replenish his life while escaping into the distance.
At this time, the support ship Research Institute finally came over.
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The night is both short and long.
Research Institute's support ship quickly treated the injured on the cruise ship and began to deal with the aftermath.
Not long after, an emergency cruise ship sailed to the location of Pirate Mothership to rescue the hostages there.
Fortunately, in order for Balan to threaten Yang De, none of the hostages were injured. However, a bomb was indeed installed on the mother ship. Although He Ao had received information about the safety of the bomb detonator, Yang De still tried his best to put people on the pirate speedboat on the cargo ship.
All the aftermath matters were busy until dawn the next day.
When the early morning sunlight was scattered on the smooth deck, He Ao sent Little Girl Nini to the temporary cruise ship and returned to her parents.
"Goodbye brothers and sisters, goodbye brother Eldest Brother!"
Nini leaned against his mother and waved goodbye to He Ao and others.
Watching the cruise ship gradually go away, leaving behind a layer of white waves, Orator sighed softly, "It's great."
"Yeah."
He Ao nodded slightly.
"By the way, Damu Mu, tell me, why don't they come together when they have three C-Rank Transcendental people?"
Orator blinked and looked at He Ao in confusion.
He Ao glanced at her, looking at the vast sea, "Prejudice"
Hu Wen, who belongs to a large organization, and the psychiatrist look down from the bottom of their hearts on Balan, the poor-legged pirate who came from a pirate background. Even if they need Balan's cooperation, they only ask Balan to provide personnel and do some odd jobs.
Rather than dividing the robbed Transcendent Item equally with a pirate, Dawn wants to take all the Transcendent Item into his hands and give out one or two at most to send the pirates away. They are also confident that they can solve Yang De by relying on Hu Wen and a psychiatrist.
Regarding this kind of behavior, Balan probably still harbors resentment in his heart.
However, this time in addition to Dawn and Balan, there was also a third-party force involved in the incident. Although Hu Wen did not obtain the information about this third-party force in He Ao's mind, he could probably guess the identity of this third-party force.
Tia Empire.
The sea area of Norlai Republic where they are now is also the sphere of influence of the Tia Empire in a sense. The Coal Ship of Balan also hangs the flag of the Tia Empire.
Judging from some information in Hu Wen's memory, Tia Empire's Transcendental organization is second only to Research Institute in strength, and has always been at odds with Research Institute. The friction between the two organizations has not been a day or two.
With such a behemoth behind him, Balan dared to launch an attack on Research Institute without any worries.
While He Ao was staring at the sea, a figure stood behind him and whispered, "Let's talk?"
He Ao turned around and saw Yang De's slightly smiling face.
He nodded and walked to the other side of the ship with Yang De.
The heavy dark clouds have long since dispersed, and the bright sunshine is shining down.
"The twenty-five thousand five hundred points have been credited to your account."
Yang De looked at the calm sea and said softly.
"Yeah."
He Ao nodded slightly and said nothing.
Yang De looked at He Ao's calm appearance and knew that he was waiting for him to make an offer.
"As for the reward for protecting the cruise ship last night, what do you want? Transcendent Item, money, or power?"
He Ao still didn't speak.
"If you are in the Overseas Department, relying on your achievements and achievements this time, you are enough to become Vice Minister of the Overseas Department. You can mobilize most of the power of Research Institute's overseas organizations, and you will be well-paid. You can call Transcendent Item in Research Institute's warehouse according to the needs of the mission.
However, although you have not joined Overseas Department, we can skip this link directly and you can come directly to be my deputy. Are you interested? "
Yang De turned around, lit a cigarette and held it in his mouth, looking at He Ao.
This is a right.
It is the right that He Ao wants.
With this position, he can legitimately use certain reasons to mobilize Research Institute's intelligence department.
"Do you want to go to work and perform regular tasks?"
He Ao asked softly.
"Of course."
Yang De smiled.
"That's not interesting."
He Ao shrugged.
Although this position is good, he has to enter Copy World every once in a while. He doesn't know how long he will stay. If he is assigned a key task in reality and happens to enter Copy World at that time, it will be troublesome. He still prefers to be more free and active.
"How about this," Yang De seemed to have guessed He Ao's answer, and he smiled, "I invite you to be Overseas Department's Honorary Deputy Minister. All the benefits are the same as before, but you don't have to work normally. If there is a task, I will contact you directly, and you can choose to accept it or not."
Under this condition, theoretically, He Ao can refuse all tasks, receive Research Institute's salary for free, and enjoy Research Institute's resources.
Slightly better is a bit too much.
"Is this Research Institute's original position?"
He Ao looked at Yang De in confusion.
"No," Yang De shook his head, "This is specially invented for you. How about it? Are you interested?"
"May I know why?"
He Ao asked calmly.
"I'm old," Yang De held a cigarette in his mouth and looked at the endless sea. The sea breeze picked up the smoke and scattered his messy hair, "So I always want to form a good relationship."
He Ao was silent for a moment and nodded gently, "Okay."
The sea breeze ruffled their clothes, making a gentle sound.
"Speaking of which," Yang De suddenly thought of something, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to He Ao, "Someone sent it to Research Institute this morning. It seems to be from the leader of Alano's largest force, Coastline Defense Force."
He Ao accepted the letter with some confusion. He had never had any contact with this leader.
This envelope was sealed in a crisp envelope. He Ao tore open the envelope, took out the letter paper inside, and unfolded it. Inside was a very short letter, written in neat Central Land characters, with strong handwriting and sharp writing.
[To brother "Hire Mercenary":
I heard that the wind blew up last night, and my brother entered the enemy ship alone, swung his sword to defeat the prisoners, and filled the mountains and rivers with anger.
The so-called Hero story is none other than this.
I was yearning for him and wanted to marry my brother, but I didn't know where to start, so I wrote a letter and gave it to my brother.
If brother is interested, he can come and look for me when he comes again.
Yu's home always has fine wine and tea to treat gentlemen. ]
To put it simply, this person wants to make friends with He Ao so that He Ao can go to him next time he goes to Alano.
However,
"Why does this man speak so half-heartedly?"
He Ao looked at Yang De.
"I don't know," Yang De also shook his head, "I heard that this leader is half of Central Land blood. He may prefer Central Land culture, but he is a very capable person, and he is now on good terms with Research Institute. If you come to Alano next time, you can pay a visit and maybe get some help."
"Yeah."
He Ao nodded slightly.
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After talking with Yang De about Vice Minister's welfare benefits, He Ao turned around and returned to his cabin.
Vice Minister's letter of appointment and contract cannot be brought over until tomorrow.
He Ao closed the cabin door, put down Suitcase, took out the three batteries from Mecha, then found some wires, inserted one end into the battery jack and fixed it, the other end on the plug, and then connected the batteries to the power supply.
This kind of High Performance Battery can adapt to the voltage, and charging is not that complicated. There is no special plug, just connect it to a line and plug it into an ordinary power supply. However, the voltage is low, the current is low, and the power is low, so the charging process is a little slower.
After charging the battery, He Ao took out the Pirate Treasure Chest.
This box is indeed C-Rank. To say it is useful, it is very useful for He Ao, but of no use to Balan.
The reason is simple, this box is an auxiliary Transcendent Item.
This box can put a single item of up to one cubic meter in volume, with a maximum of five items, and a maximum of C-Rank. However, every time you open the box, you must first put in a Transcendent Item before you can take out the items inside. If there is no Transcendent Item to put in, the soul will be absorbed by the box as the price of opening the box.
But what is interesting is that the box must be bound to the owner. The owner can sacrifice the soul of others as the price for opening the box. After opening the box, the owner can take out an item.
But if you want to continue to take things out, you have to continue to put things in, put one thing in, and take out another thing. However, the number of times you take out is not cumulative. Once the box is closed and opened again, new things need to be put in.
In addition to the owner, other people can also open the box. When they open the box, they also need to put Transcendent Item in, but if they cannot take it out, it is equivalent to being directly robbed by this box. Those who have Transcendent Item will rob Transcendent Item, and those who do not have Transcendent Item will have their souls robbed.
However, this box can actually be solved through the card bug. If the owner has two pieces of Transcendent Item, he can put one in and take out the other, constantly alternating.
But it's a pity that Balan doesn't have a piece of Transcendent Item, so he can only put this box outside as a trap to absorb souls. However, after Pirate Treasure Chest recognizes the owner, it will have some kind of connection with the owner, allowing the owner to vaguely sense his position without fear of losing it.
Of course, Balan found the cruise ship not through Pirate Treasure Chest in He Ao.
Obviously, from beginning to end, Balan was trying to track the location of the cruise ship through the Automatic Identification System broadcast on the cruise ship. After all, when He Ao didn't get the treasure box at the beginning, Balan was following the cruise ship.
The topic returns to Pirate Treasure Chest. The box will always try to attract others to open the box, even its own owner.
However, after some thinking, He Ao discovered another possible loophole in this box.
He opened the box and put in the useless Arbitration Scale as a condition for opening it.
Then he closed the box.
After closing the box, if you want to open it again, you need to put new items in it.
But He Ao did not open the box this time. Instead, he put his hand on the box and started his own Miracle Magic.
Get things from the air!
Arbitration Scale appeared in his hands instantly.
Sure enough, it is possible to take things out of the box directly through air retrieval, although it consumes a lot of money.
Although there is a completely unreasonable huge space in Pirate Treasure Chest, it is still judged as a box by air retrieval. As long as it is a box, you can try to use air retrieval to take out things.
However, there are prerequisites for retrieving objects from the air. He Ao must know what the items in the box are and what they look like in order to take them out.
The moment He Ao took out Arbitration Scale, He Ao felt Pirate Treasure Chest jump a little, and seemed very angry.
Then He Ao took out Miracle Wand and placed it next to it.
So Pirate Treasure Chest got angry for a while and then couldn't get angry anymore.
Then He Ao placed Arbitration Scale in front of Pirate Treasure Chest. Without opening the box, he used the ability to retrieve objects from the air to directly put Arbitration Scale back into the box.
Before Pirate Treasure Chest could react, Transcendent Item came back in his stomach, He Ao took out Arbitration Scale again.
And then it goes back and forth like this.
At first Pirate Treasure Chest tried to struggle, carefully expressing his anger next to Miracle Wand, but later he became completely motionless.
After trying several times and making sure there was no problem, He Ao put Arbitration Scale back into the box again.
Then he picked up Puppet Crystal Ball, lifted it slowly, and put Crystal Ball into the box. At this moment, his connection with "Hu Wen", which had become a puppet, was not broken.
This means that the box will not break this spiritual connection.
He Ao thought for a while and put Bone Sword into the box.
Now, there are already three items in the box, because they were put in directly through the air, bypassing the restriction that Transcendent Item must be put in.
He Ao glanced at the silver Suitcase whose battery had been removed, and put Suitcase into the box as well.
Now, he only needs to use "Vanish Without a Trace" to cover up the existence of Pirate Treasure Chest, and he can carry these items with him without being discovered.
Although Pirate Treasure Chest seems to be a very rare Transcendent Item with storage capabilities, due to its special storage rules, only one piece can be taken out at a time and must be put in first before each use. In fact, it is not that easy to use.
However, in the hands of He Ao, which possesses the ability of Miracle Wand and "retrieving objects from the air", it can circumvent its complicated rules and maximize its capabilities.
He Ao took off Five-Colored Ring, interrupted the accumulation of charm ability, then put away Pirate Treasure Chest, and quietly looked at the sea outside the window.
Sunset and moonrise.
When the stars of Brilliant were hanging in the sky like pearls, the countdown in He Ao's vision returned to zero again.
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