"Captain, the Divine Will of the mission target has been recovered." A robot named Tomorrow held a bottle containing a glowing yellow object.
"Okay," Li Changzhou released the slender wrist of the woman in front of him, "We'll talk about it back on the ship."
"You owe me a flying car, you owe me a flying car, you owe me a flying car..." The woman had turned into a debt-collecting ghost.
There was a spaceship as big as a town, named "Long Day" (which translates to Xia Yu in this sense), meaning: constantly as bright as a constant star in a universe themed with darkness (the concepts of universe and constant star are also translations and are originally different words).
Li Changzhou was the captain of this spaceship, born—
"I envy the captain so much." Once aboard, the engineer named Thick stuck out his tentacles, subconsciously wanting to touch Li Changzhou's body but dared not.
Li Changzhou tried to keep a normal attitude towards Thick's eighteen tentacles and walked past him expressionlessly.
"Cosmic People!" Thick followed him like a puppy, "Only Divine Will Warriors who can survive in the universe and absorb cosmic energy can be called Cosmic People! Our captain is one of the great Cosmic People!"
"Instinct?" The flying car woman shoved him off with her shoulder, "Arnes, I suggest you modify your instincts the next time you Ascend."
"No no, these instincts can't be tampered with, my darling, don't be angry, I will stand by you and make sure the captain compensates you for the flying car." Arnes hugged the petite and cute body of the flying car woman.
The flying car woman reluctantly controlled her anger.
Li Changzhou entered the cabin and sat down on the captain's throne ... it felt a bit like the Bike Demon King.
"Captain, where are we headed next?" the pilot named Da Yi, also a tentacle monster, used one of his tentacular eyes to look at Li Changzhou.
"To find 'IAO·1 Second Gap'."
"Okay, we should arrive in about... one day."
In Divine Will Great Wall, the concept of a day is the same as a day on Earth because the day on the Ancestor Star of Divine Will coincidentally matches that of Earth, so the concepts of a day, a month, and a year are similar.
"Captain, how do you plan to compensate Itheri for her flying car?" Arnes, hugging the flying car woman, approached.
Li Changzhou took his gaze away from the forward porthole—staring at the vast universe, he saw that Arnes, an Ascension Warrior, a modified human with prosthetics and brain enhancements, stood in front of him.
In this era, ordinary humans who hadn't ascended were absolutely at the bottom, unless they were Divine Will Warriors.
And to become a Divine Will Warrior, ordinary people had no chance without ascending, no money.
Li Changzhou shifted his gaze to Itheri, or the flying car woman, with her pink short hair, delicately petite curves, attractive appearance, slightly thick lips, and eyes that had a gem-like quality.
Her profession was... somewhat difficult to translate... she could be called a psychologist or a hacker—when doing good, she was a psychologist; when doing wrong, she was a hacker invading people's minds.
Li Changzhou scratched the corner of his left eye with his right hand; he had already inquired about the price of that flying car before boarding the ship.
An important point in the Value game was that the role players take over in the game resembles the player almost completely in some aspects, and this time, besides being a Cosmic Person, there was another similarity—the wallet.
"You know, I don't care about money," he said.
"So, no money?" Itheri's face almost touched his.
Li Changzhou stepped back: "That causal relationship can also hold."
"Then why did you collide with them?! Why didn't you slow down?! Huh?!" Itheri roared, her petite body bursting forth a volume that shook the spaceship.
"How could I slow down in that situation?" A dinosaur-shaped Ascension Warrior interrupted, "The whole universe knows, only sissies slow down."
"Only sissies slow down~, oh~, baby~, we're flying toward the stars~" Pilot Da Yi sang.
It was a song.
"Shut up!!!"
The Long Day Spaceship fell silent, flying through the dead silence of space, both fast and slow.
One second, two seconds...
"We are about to enter deep space; everyone, please get ready," the spaceship's AI voice was the only object daring to sound.
Li Changzhou gave Arnes a look, signaling him to soothe his girlfriend.
"Lily—"
"Do you want to die?" Itheri's gaze shot toward her boyfriend.
Arnes shrugged at Li Changzhou, indicating that he was helpless.
The guy seemed quite pleased to see his girlfriend arguing with Li Changzhou.
"Alright, Itheri," Li Changzhou started in a calm voice, "there's a big deal coming up; once it's done, buying you a flying car will be the priority."
"Captain, this spaceship should have been retired 5000 years ago, you can't neglect upgrading the ship just because you can survive freely in space," Engineer Thick reminded.
"I think it's fine," Pilot Da Yi said, "it handles well, of course, it would be better if it could be upgraded; every time we dock, my brethren who pilot high-level spaceships always tease me—I've decided, Captain, I want to pilot a new spaceship."