"This is wonderful! With the boss backing me, I can fix even more things. Heh heh heh..."
Bolin broke into another guileless chuckle. His eyes always shone with curiosity and longing for machinery, and his hands trembled slightly, as though they could not help shaking whenever he was not touching tools or machines.
A born mechanic!
Xi Yan went over and patted his shoulder with a virtual hand. This was Xi Yan's usual way of showing affection.
"What made you decide to leave the Salvager City-State and apply for a job with us?" Xi Yan asked.
Bolin gave exactly the same answer he did in the game.
[I just travel around, trying to make a life for myself. You look like a boss who values hard work and efficiency, a dependable leader. You see the world for what it really is and use what we have to build a better future!]
That was true enough. Xi Yan did indeed place great importance on hard work and efficiency.
[I just got tired of the Salvager City-State. Ever since I can remember, I've dreamed of roaming the void. I wanted to push myself and see how far I could go. So I packed up my tools, and here I am. Now, any more questions? Or shall we get building?]
A radiant smile spread across Xi Yan's face, and he patted Bolin even harder, though his virtual hand could not actually touch anyone.
"Mr. Bolin, in your opinion, if we entrusted all the materials in this warehouse to you, what could you give us in return?"
Now that the conversation had turned to his specialty, Bolin immediately extended a mechanical arm and projected the warehouse's inventory in front of himself.
After a rough estimate, the mammalian creature in the