Cognition

"Zero, do you think that rookie training officer Yue Ming can handle this situation?"

Wang Qianduo felt the intelligence in his hand was tricky. The mission was completed like this, it shouldn't be a problem, right?

"I don't know, but General Huang should be fine!" Zero analyzed seriously and replied.

"Alright, then let's go back to find Old Huang. If that doesn't work, I'll ask my master. I didn't become his disciple for nothing!"

After Wang Qianduo finished speaking, he got up and rushed back to the home planet base.

Old Luo's identity was actually not simple. The fact that Zero couldn't investigate any information about him showed this.

Back at the home planet base, Wang Qianduo calmed his mood and went directly to General Huang.

"Didn't I tell you to come after level ten?" General Huang asked doubtfully when he saw Wang Qianduo.

"I obtained a piece of intelligence and wanted to ask for your help to verify its authenticity!" Wang Qianduo said, handing the intelligence given by Scarface to General Huang.

For some reason, players could no longer reach Old Huang. There wasn't a single player around.

Wang Qianduo entered because of his squad leader status, so he generously handed the item to Old Huang.

"Intelligence?"

General Huang took the intelligence Wang Qianduo handed over, and his expression became more and more gloomy as he read.

"Nightfall's intelligence? They are indeed formidable! They investigated our people even more thoroughly than we did.

I've been investigating this recently, but there are still some who slipped through the net.

I'll keep this. Use this to report to Yue Ming, and take your reward too!"

General Huang then threw a letter directly to Wang Qianduo, and at the same time, a system prompt appeared before Wang Qianduo.

System Prompt: You have gained 100 experience, 1000 merit, 1 Gold Crystal, and a Perfect-grade equipment blueprint [Breath of the North Wind].
Your official rank has been promoted to Staff Sergeant, and your world reputation has increased.

The generous rewards allowed Wang Qianduo to skip Corporal and Sergeant and directly enter the ranks of Staff Sergeant. It was just that the Gold Crystal and experience were a bit lacking.

However, he also obtained a Perfect equipment that other players dreamed of, the Level 5 reconnaissance device [Breath of the North Wind].

Although it was useless to him, it could be sold for money! The price of this item was not low.

"Hmm~ Your mission with Yue Ming should be over. But it doesn't matter, I have a mission here that I can give you."

System Prompt: General Huang has issued you a Military Rank Cycle Quest, [1, Collect Ore]. Do you accept?

Just as Wang Qianduo was checking his gains, another system prompt came.

What else was there to say? He had to accept it!

However, judging by his words, his hidden mission seemed to be out of the question. This newly issued mission wasn't even a hidden one.

[1, Collect Ore]: Go to the mining planet in Sector Three and collect three types of ore. Quest Requirements: Collect three types of ore. Rewards: 10 Gold Crystals, 2000 experience, 10 merit points, 1 random exquisite material.

However, after Wang Qianduo read the quest requirements and the meaning of a cycle quest, his eyes narrowed, and he looked at General Huang.

"No need to look at me like that, I'm just following the rules!" General Huang said with a mysterious smile, looking at Wang Qianduo's gaze.

Wang Qianduo also smiled and nodded, then thanked him and took his leave.

There was something to this cycle quest!

Old Huang was truly amazing. He seemed to know exactly what he needed most right now. This cycle quest directly hit his weak spot!

Cycle quests, as the name suggests, are quests that can be completed repeatedly. Five quests form one cycle, and two cycles can be completed per day.

After each round, an additional amount of money and experience would be awarded, along with a treasure chest.

He didn't know what could be opened from the treasure chest, but the experience and money alone were enough.

In fact, cycle quests were just daily quests in a typical game.

However, in this game, cycle quests could only be activated by Staff Sergeants.

This explained why the experience and money rewards for the intelligence Old Huang gave him were almost zero, but the merit points were so high.

It seemed that his merit points and rewards were not enough to be promoted to Staff Sergeant. Old Huang adjusted the proportion of the three rewards he received, allowing him to directly reach Staff Sergeant.

In other words, Old Huang had pulled some strings for him. The rewards for this cycle quest were so generous that they were unimaginable to other players.

It seemed that taking the military rank route was the correct direction for this game. The interstellar exploration route and the mercenary group route, which were the mainstream for players, were completely misguided!

"Aren't they missing out on a fortune?"

Actually, Wang Qianduo didn't know that it wasn't that they were misguided, but that they couldn't even get through the door.

Even the group of people from Miracle Sword, who completed the hidden mission with him, hadn't activated the military rank system, let alone other players.

However, through Old Huang's series of actions, Wang Qianduo gained a new understanding of the intelligence of the NPCs in this game.

After bidding farewell to General Huang, Wang Qiansuo took the intelligence given to him by General Huang to find Yue Ming.

The intelligence General Huang gave him was a few names from the Dark Night Intelligence.

"It seems it's as we guessed, Yue Ming really can't be entrusted with the complete intelligence!" Wang Qiansuo said to Ling.

Ling: "Not necessarily. General Huang, your master and Yue Ming seem to be from different factions, and they appear to be in a competitive relationship!"

Wang Qiansuo: "???"

"How do you know?"

"I looked it up online! I found out from news online!" Ling.

"Oh, right! In such a developed era, almost any news can be found on the internet.

Wait! Why are you only telling me now?"

Ling: "I just finished analyzing it!"

Wang Qiansuo: "...Tell me this kind of thing earlier in the future, otherwise, if we get involved, how can we develop?"

Ling: "Got it!

However, sir, it's indeed not suitable to hand over this intelligence to Yue Ming, because he and his faction are somewhat unscrupulous."

After Ling finished speaking, he transmitted the information he investigated to Wang Qiansuo. After Wang Qiansuo read it, he said in a low voice:

"Understood. Remember to remind me to stay away from these radical people with bad intentions in the future."

"Okay!"

As Wang Qiansuo had guessed, after he handed over the task, Yue Ming only gave him the reward and didn't mention anything about the subsequent tasks.

It seemed that Yue Ming already knew that Wang Qiansuo had gone to Old Wang to complete the task first.

What was even more impressive was that besides the experience, money, and merit points that were mandatory, he actually gave Wang Qiansuo an initial skill, Energy Bullet.

This skill couldn't be said to be bad. After all, there was no other way to obtain initial skills, and quests might be the only chance to get them.

However, although Wang Qiansuo had an all-attribute mecha, NPCs gave rewards based on his highest attribute, just like Shun Zhan given by Old Huang.

But this person clearly gave him an initial skill for his lowest attribute just to annoy him.

This skill would not be trained by anyone unless they went the intelligence route.

What a rip-off!

However, this time, the other party's attempt to trick him backfired, because Wang Qiansuo had already decided to go the intelligence route.

This skill was actually more suitable. Happily accepting the skill, Wang Qiansuo left, leaving Yue Ming completely confused.

(〇_ｏ)?

~~~

After saying goodbye to Yue Ming, Wang Qiansuo logged off, preparing to have a meal.

Although he had done almost nothing, just walking around doing quests, a whole morning had actually passed.

The game map was a true 1:1 replica of the real world map.

Although Wang Qiansuo didn't seem to have done much this morning, in reality, it would be equivalent to taking several client calls.

Then immediately taking a high-speed train and a taxi to a nightclub in the next city, and then returning to report work to two leaders.

These things really weren't a lot for a whole morning!

"I might spend a bit more time in the game these days. If anything happens on your end, just call me immediately."

"What could happen here? The new system is basically stable. Just play your game. We're counting on you to help us get the year-end bonus!"

"I wouldn't have dared to say it before, but now, as long as professional players don't compete with us, it's not a problem to be among the top!"

As Wang Qiansuo was chatting and eating with Wang Jun in the cafeteria, another familiar female voice came from behind:

"So confident?"

"Yin... No, why are you walking without making a sound?" Wang Qiansuo and Wang Jun turned their heads to look at Lin Qimeng at the same time. Wang Qiansuo almost blurted out what he was thinking.

"My high heels are quite loud! It's just that you were talking too seriously," Lin Qimeng said as she sat down at their table, biting her chopstick playfully.

Her action almost made Old Wang's heart leap out of his chest. "You're testing cadres like this?

Who could possibly endure this!"

"Ahem, Manager, what is it? Please speak. Don't do that, my heart can't take it!" Wang Qiansuo said directly. She was simply a siren.