Chapter 12 – Plastic husband and wife are also unbearable.

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Several rows of spaceships hovered in space.

After the Whale’s spaceship flew over, the number of people in the live broadcast room instantly exploded.

This celestial phenomenon was a Planetary Rupture, which, although rarer than solar and lunar eclipses and meteor showers, people gradually stopped caring about due to excessive reporting. But now that the Whale Rovers had participated, it aroused people’s curiosity.

As a mercenary organization, the Whale Rovers basically accepted all the jobs that mercenaries could take, and it was said that their performance was excellent. There were also rumors that they accounted for one of the top five assassins in the interstellar rankings.

But the Whale really didn’t seem like a mercenary company. They accepted jobs entirely based on their preferences, and no amount of money would change their minds if they didn’t like it.

And whether they accepted jobs or not, they would occasionally cause some trouble.

For example, one took a job as a bodyguard for a movie emperor, but became a hit on the internet because of his looks. This wasn’t the end of it. After he refused to renew his contract and ran away, the dignified movie emperor went crazy on the spot and hadn’t given up for three years.

Another one was obsessed with archaeology and liked to explore various ruins, with an amazing amount of knowledge. Once, he argued online with an expert for three whole days, and finally proved that he was right, attracting countless people to watch and even making official news.

There was also one who liked gray foxes and would go to their habitat to stake out, take pictures, and attract foxes whenever he had time. Once, she happened to run into poachers. The other party saw that she was alone and thought she was an easy target, but they didn’t expect to provoke a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The entire cross-starfield smuggling gang was wiped out by her in a fit of anger. The annual natural animal protection contribution award for that starfield was awarded to her, but she still hadn’t gone to claim it.

There was also one who was obsessed with making money. He once made a bet with someone about “which is more profitable, picking up trash or being a wage slave” and went to the Di Sha starfield to pick up trash for a month. No one knew how he picked it up, but the money he earned was more than twenty times the salary of a wage slave. After the news spread, many people tried it, and they all came back to ask the soul-searching question, “Did you cheat several times to make so much money?” Unfortunately, they didn’t get a reply.

In short, the mercenary profession, which had always been somewhat mysterious and negative, had increased a lot of attention because of the Whale’s occasional antics.

It was said that several famous mercenary companies often cursed in the group, “Why the hell is a mercenary trending on the hot search,” but they couldn’t do anything about it. They could only issue a statement on the official account to clarify and advertise, saying, “Don’t talk nonsense, we didn’t do that. What assassins, we don’t have assassins. We’ll send a lawyer’s letter if you say it again! We are a security company, providing security services. Welcome to place an order.”

Therefore, when they saw the Whale Rovers at this time, people were very excited, and the barrage was also scrolling extremely fast.

【What mission did they take? Like filming the planetary rupture up close?】

【Are they courting death? It’ll be approaching the Roche limit soon!】

【I wonder who’s on the spaceship, is Shui Shui there? Please let us see our male god, he’s been waiting for you for three years.】

【My hands are shaking, a jewelry major is passing by… I have an extremely crazy guess right now…】

The highly anticipated spaceship broke through the atmosphere, and then the hatch opened. Song Yan flew out in a mecha. The other two attack mechas followed him a few meters behind, like an isosceles triangle, descending rapidly.

The sky was dark and the wind was howling.

The barren land was covered with deep cracks, and the distant mountains were constantly wailing and shaking, with rocks rolling everywhere.

The Whale members stood by the window and looked down, their expressions a little tense.

The three mechas flew over a rugged valley and fell into a cracked canyon.

The light dimmed in an instant, and the mountains on both sides were terrifying, as if they could swallow them in one bite at any time.

Song Yan turned on the detector and went thousands of meters deep without changing his expression, patiently groping forward. After a while, he found a spot, unfolded the mecha’s excavation and cutting arms, and began to dig downwards.

The entire valley was shaking, and rocks were falling down with a “bang”, destroying everything in their path, as if the sky was falling and the earth was collapsing.

Two teammates guarded him amidst the massive roar, sweeping away falling rocks one by one. The internal channel was silent, as if afraid of disturbing them.

After an unknown period, a voice in his ear asked, “Do you have them? How many?”

“Four,” Song Yan said.

“That’s enough,” the voice from above replied.

Song Yan said, “Wait a moment.”

The people above waited reluctantly for half an hour and asked, “Still not done?”

Song Yan said, “Done.”

The people above urged, “Hurry, the canyon is closing in.”

Song Yan collected the last stone and quickly ascended with his two teammates.

The canyon moved extremely fast, as if an invisible hand was squeezing it hard and crushing it towards the middle. However, the three of them had excellent skills and didn’t panic. They changed lines and dodged while flying, successfully returning to the ground.

The next moment, the two sides of the canyon completely collided, and dust roared up.

The two teammates immediately whistled, controlled their mechas to bump fists, and patted Song Yan on the shoulder with a smile.

The people above collectively breathed a sigh of relief, also with smiles, and descended in coordination to catch them, then turned around and flew out.

The onlookers had been waiting anxiously for a long time, guessing all sorts of things.

Just when they thought the Whale was going to crash this time, they saw the familiar spaceship reappear in their field of vision, returning from the planet.

Everyone was confused: “So what did they do?”

“Who knows… Don’t make noise, look, the atmosphere is starting to be absorbed!”

Song Yan looked out the window and saw that the planet they had just set foot on was gradually approaching another planet, and the outer atmosphere flowed over like water.

—Yan Yan, do you know the Roche limit? It’s the shortest distance between two celestial bodies that can maintain stable operation [1].

—If the distance between two celestial bodies is less than this value one day, then the smaller celestial body will be sucked over by the larger one and then violently crushed. Those fragments will not dissipate and be blown away, but will form a beautiful ring around the surface of that planet.

—Of course I’ve seen it. Do you want to see it? Then if there’s a chance in the future, Dad will take you to see it with your own eyes.

The asteroid reached its limit and tore apart with a bang.

A piece of light was reflected in Song Yan’s eyes, and he said softly to himself in his heart: Song Yan, happy birthday.

The onlookers burst into excited screams. When they turned their attention back to the Whale, they found that they were slowly leaving, as if they had only come to watch a celestial event.

However, people soon knew what the Whale had done.

Five days later, Xie Chenyu stepped out of the port and got into the car, and saw that the company’s chat group had exploded.

A confidant also sent a private message: “Boss, have you seen the news? The Whale has caused trouble again!”

Xie Chenyu thought that it was not surprising for the Whale to cause trouble, and replied in a voice message without much interest: “Did Xin Mingshui finally lose his patience and beat up the movie emperor, or did they finally figure it out and want to switch to being an internet celebrity company?”

The confidant said, “Neither, they recruited a new person!”

Xie Chenyu was slightly interested this time.

As the boss of a mercenary company, he also wanted to see the level of other companies’ rookies.

So he followed the link in the group and opened the video.

The Whale Rover said that they had recruited a new person and were going to hold a welcome ceremony, which the new person would choose himself.

The scene changed, showing the scene on the asteroid, which was edited with a lot of first-person perspectives, which made people’s hearts beat faster.

When the first stone was cut off, the video split in two, one side showing the doomsday-like planet and the smooth operation, and the other side showing the monitoring of the stone.

After they left the planet, the screen was all stones, and it was fast-forwarded all the way, proving that they hadn’t dropped the package along the way.

A few hours later, a robotic arm took out the last stone that was put in and cut it on the spot, obtaining a rugby ball-sized gemstone.

Flowing with dazzling gold in the star-like color was the most precious gemstone in the interstellar space—the Royal Quartz.

Royal Quartz were known for being rare and difficult to mine. One carat could sell for more than 800,000 star coins. Such a large one was extremely rare. Looking at the color of this one, you could tell that it was a top-quality product, and it was more valuable than other Royal Quartz of the same carat and color, because according to the labeling of the stone sequence, it was the last Royal Quartz on planet Z103.

Next, he opened the remaining four stones, and all of them produced Royal Quartz of various sizes.

That day, jewelers throughout the galaxy went crazy and began frantically contacting Whale to discuss business.

The netizens also went crazy.

【You call this a welcome ceremony???】

【Awesome, debuted as a god.】

【No, it’s retirement upon employment. Selling these few pieces will give him more money than he can spend in his next life.】

【I understand the logic, but how did they know there were royal quartzs there!】

【I know the answer to this question. Didn’t the media keep reporting on Planet Z103? At the time, one of my senior brothers said after reading the introduction that there might be royal quartzs inside, but royal quartzs are too difficult to mine, and the distance is too far to detect. Even Whale Rovers waited until the planet was about to be torn apart, with several cracks appearing, before going down to find them. Look at the process, a slight mistake and you’d be buried inside. We all thought no one would be suicidal enough to go, but we forgot about the lunatics at Whale!】

【Grass, Whale’s recent news has been a bit funny, making me forget they’re a bunch of lunatics.】

【To be fair, the cutting and subsequent processing were done beautifully. This is clearly the work of an expert】

【I saw a bit of an Alpha suppression band showing on his wrist. Little brother, are you single? Have you considered a Beta? I want to be your leg accessory!】

【So exciting, I also want to be a mercenary.】

【Don’t. Do you think it’s that easy…..】

Next was the usual science popularization time, with a group of fans digging up certain tragic cases to tell them that they were all the work of mercenaries.

Several mercenary companies were dragged out and trashed again, impotently furious.

The PR manager couldn’t help but say, “Why don’t we also package a few internet celebrity mercenaries? If you can’t beat them, join them. Maybe with a lot of brain-dead fans, the next time we encounter this kind of thing, they will automatically send out brainwashing packages to control the comments, and with greater fame, orders will also increase.”

The manager was tempted: “Okay.”

Xie Chenyu’s small, broken company had just completed its reorganization and expansion and was still in a state of obscurity, so it didn’t have this kind of treatment.

However, he didn’t escape either, because General Sender took the opportunity to add a few royal quartzs to the bounty, so the “Mo Zhe Incident,” which had almost no discussion, was once again brought to the trending searches.

Xie Chenyu: “……”

Thanks a lot.

He thought to himself that he really didn’t get along with Whale Rovers, closed the webpage, got out of the car, and saw that the love brain had arrived.

The two people on the trending searches looked at each other, with a bit of resistance and disgust on their faces. After meeting today, they would take pictures and buy some souvenirs together, then return to Capital Star to celebrate Song Yan’s 18th birthday, then get a marriage certificate, and start their married life.

Song Yan was aggrieved: “I don’t want to be separated from Brother Gangzi”

Xie Chenyu also looked melancholy, didn’t comfort him, and only gave an “Mm.”

The two walked a few steps side by side in a gloomy mood, and at the same time felt a little unbearable.

Song Yan thought: Forget it, this literary youth has just been separated from his lover.

Xie Chenyu thought: Alas, at least he’s a little milk baby I used to hold.

The two looked at each other again at the same time.

Song Yan said: “I believe we will both have a good outcome in the future.”

Xie Chenyu said: “It’s okay, we can still continue online classes.”

Song Yan said: “Yes!”

The plastic couple saw that each other had recovered, and then sweetly entered a couple’s store.