LWDC Chapter 41

Chapter 41 – Designated Mission

Chapter 41 – Designated Mission

Chapter 41 – Designated Mission

Time-Space Administration, Debt Collection Department, 378 time coordinate points (days) since Ning Fei completed the “Supermodel’s Last Wish Debt Collection Mission.”

The door of the transfer capsule opened, and Ning Fei walked out. Almost simultaneously, a floating light screen lit up automatically in front of him, and a magnetic male voice entered his ears: “Welcome back, Ning Fei. You have successfully executed the ‘Emergency Assistance: Female CEO Debt Collection Mission,’ taking 350 time coordinate points. This mission falls under the emergency assistance category, and you will receive triple Qi Luck points. We will now begin settling your account…”

“Ning Fei!”

An acquaintance came over to say hello: “I saw youshua, swipe another emergency assistance mission on the broadcast. You’re really fast. Cleaning up other people’s messes is faster than doing your own missions. How do you do it?”

“Just got lucky this time. The original debt collector was too close to the transmigrator and went soft,” Ning Fei smiled. “After I got in, every time I scolded that debt collector dog blood, it would stimulate the transmigrator to work harder. The more arrogant I am to the debt collector, the more the transmigrator hates and works hard. It works every time.”

“Uh, didn’t your colleague hit you? Just cooperated with being scolded by you?”

“What can she do to me?” Ning Fei shrugged. “She can’t be ruthless to the transmigrator, let alone to me. She can’t win against me in a shouting match, and she can’t out-crazy me either. Besides calling me a madman, she can’t do anything else.”

“Amazing, you’re the only one who can always prescribe the right medicine,” the acquaintance said happily. “Aren’t you afraid that colleague will make things difficult for you in the future?”

“If she has the ability, she should complete her own missions first, instead of posting emergency requests in the system. The reward for this mission almost all went to me. Is it my fault?” Ning Fei replied calmly, “Besides, it’s not just her who hates me. One more doesn’t matter.”

“Hahaha, you’re right!” the acquaintance said happily. “Oh, by the way, a new emergency assistance mission popped up a few days ago, with a particularly high estimated reward point value. You should try it, shouldn’t you? Are you saving up points for a vacation again?”

“I am saving up. There’s a place I want to go… But this mission you’re talking about, with particularly high points, that must mean the transmigrator and the previous debt collector messed things up beyond repair. The possibility of paying off the debt is very low, otherwise they wouldn’t offer such a high cut,” Ning Fei said doubtfully. “Aren’t there people who specialize in these difficult and complicated cases? It’s been several days and no one has taken it?”

“I don’t know if anyone has signed up. Anyway, the mission is still hanging on the list, in the top few rows,” the acquaintance replied. “Are you going to take it?”

“I don’t really want to take it. I like high risk, high reward, not high risk with a high probability of the reward being wasted. Besides, I don’t want to work continuously. I want to rest for a few days, you know…” Ning Fei said, noticing that his inbox on the light screen beside him was flashing. He hadn’t noticed it when the mission summary was scrolling earlier, but now it was conspicuous.

Ning Fei casually clicked it open, glanced at it, and was immediately stunned.

The acquaintance noticed his movement: “What’s wrong?”

Ning Fei: “That emergency assistance mission you mentioned, is the applying debt collector named Chong Lin?”

Acquaintance: “…It really is. Oh right, I suddenly remembered, didn’t you assist him before? And then as soon as he came out of the transfer portal, he publiclybibi lai lai, nagging at you, saying you were completely inhuman and immoral or something?”

Ning Fei: “Yes, it’s him. The reason this mission hasn’t been taken by anyone else might be because he designated the mission to me.”

Acquaintance: “…Huh?”

*

[Last Wish Proposer: Dong Lingyan

Situation Brief: Zi Youheng, son of the Prefect of Yunfu County in the borderlands. When Dong Lingyan was ten years old, his entire family was slaughtered overnight by foreign tribes, and only Dong Lingyan narrowly escaped. Fearing pursuit, Dong Lingyan spent a long time hiding his identity and striving for advancement, hoping to avenge his family by relying on the power of the state after passing the imperial examinations and gaining official status. But later, he was involved in power struggles and eventually died at the hands of political enemies, failing to achieve his goal.

Wish: To avenge his family, personally kill the murderers and drive away the foreign enemies, and make the political enemies who caused his death wish they were never born.]

“Isn’t this a pretty clear goal?” Ning Fei, after scanning the information, was a little confused. “How could they mess this up so completely? What exactly were the transmigrator and that Chong Lin doing?”

His attached AI responded: “As per your request, you are viewing the concise version of the information. Do you want to view the detailed version?”

“No. Looking at this, I already know the detailed version is just another stereotypical revenge novel, only a failed version. I don’t want to waste time. It’s better to go to the scene and see the actual situation,” Ning Fei replied. “Set the identity.”

A list of characters was displayed on the light screen, with different corresponding point costs for each list. Characters with high status and power are easier to help the transmigrator, but the points required are sometimes so high that it’s not worth it. Characters with lower status and marginalized roles require fewer points, but without money or power, they may not be able to exert much effort.

Ning Fei has his own preferred type of identity, but before choosing, he asked: “What identity did Chong Lin use?”

“Son of Prime Minister Li Bingren,” the attached AI replied. “Dong Lingyan is from the Second Prince’s faction, and the Prime Minister is from the First Prince’s faction.”

“Tsk, wanting to be an internal spy? He doesn’t even weigh his own worth. Can he handle that kind of identity?” Ning Fei said. “Design me a…retainer identity of the Second Prince.”

This identity isn’t high, so it requires fewer points, but it’s easy to get close to the transmigrator and his superior. Ning Fei never wastes points in this area. Moreover, this mission feels fishy, and Ning Fei is even more reluctant to spend points on the identity.

“Identity generated,” the attached AI responded. “Now start selecting subsidiary settings.”

A more complex settings selection panel appeared. People seeing it for the first time would definitely be dazzled.

Some settings are purely material, such as a large amount of currency, specially designated environments, information data, weapons, etc. in this world. Some are skills or attributes, such as customized appearance, language ability, martial arts, or even supernatural abilities… In short, the rarer something is to this world, the more expensive it is. Especially magic and supernatural abilities that transcend the world’s settings, the price can skyrocket.

Of course, if you switch to a world where magic and supernatural abilities already exist, the price of these skills will drop a lot and return to normal levels.

“This world doesn’t have those messy supernatural abilities, right?” Ning Fei still upheld the principle of not wasting unless necessary, and replied, “No need for any special subsidiary settings. Just equip me with the average conditions of a retainer.”

“Okay,” the attached AI replied. “The three-day guide has also been equipped for you. When would you like to depart?”

“Let’s go now. I have an ominous premonition about this broken mission. If I wasn’t only allowed to reject one request for help every 30 days, I wouldn’t even bother going,” Ning Fei sneered. “Go early and come back early. At worst, I’ll just quickly admit the mission failed. Anyway, this little bit of money, just consider it thrown into space.”

“The transfer capsule has been successfully reserved for you. You can reach it by going to door A-3582,” the attached AI responded. “Please do not litter in space.”

“Got it,” Ning Fei walked towards the door of his little nest. “You’ve even learned to tell jokes. Speaking with this voice in such a serious manner is quite humorous.”

The door silently slid open in front of him, and the attached AI said: “Wishing you a smooth and safe journey.”

*

Ning Fei appeared in the Second Prince’s residence.

The robe he was wearing was simple, but much better than the commoners’ coarse cloth clothing. His appearance and name hadn’t changed, only his hair had grown longer, styled in the most common bun of scholars of this era, wearing a black hair crown and a dark wooden hairpin. He had a sachet at his waist, which shouldn’t be expensive based on the material and embroidery, but Ning Fei liked the scent.

He checked himself over and quickly began to wander around. No one questioned how a stranger suddenly appeared. Everyone assumed he was originally a part of this place. There was also a “three-day guide” in his mind constantly answering his questions, such as what the building in front of him was used for, where the road under his feet led, and who the person in front of him was. As long as it was knowledge that the “retainer” identity should know, the “three-day guide” would answer him.

But the guide wouldn’t actively introduce things, wouldn’t remind him of things that were happening or about to happen elsewhere, and wouldn’t help him explore the truth. Moreover, after three days, this guide would completely disappear, and Ning Fei would have to rely on his own exploration. Therefore, in these three days, Ning Fei had to ask and remember as much as possible about what he should know, otherwise, it would be very easy to be at a loss when the guide disappeared—especially in this feudal dynasty without the internet.

The “three-day guide” also had a function to contact the other debt collector who issued the request for help. But there were only three opportunities in total, each lasting no more than ten minutes, and could only be used within these three days. However, Ning Fei wasn’t in a hurry to contact him now, but was preparing to familiarize himself with the environment first.

As he walked around the Second Prince’s residence, he encountered a steward. The guide gave a brief introduction to this steward, and Ning Fei, listening, stepped forward and asked in a natural tone: “Steward Liu, can I see Brother Youheng today?”

“Young Master Dong? I haven’t seen him. It’s been several days since I’ve seen Young Master Dong come to the residence to visit His Highness,” Steward Liu paused, then added with a hint ofxixue, banter: “However, these days, Young Master Dong should be quite often seen in the marketplace, taking people out to play.”

“Taking people out to play?” Ning Fei heard the qingman, contempt in his tone and followed his words: “Instead of consulting with His Highness from time to time, he’s gone out to seek pleasure with others? Sounds quite eye-catching?”

“Isn’t it?” Steward Liu gave a meaningful smile and said slowly, “He seems to really want to take that foreign woman as his second wife, and he even brought her out to play, showing her face in public. Although that foreign woman is wearing our dynasty’s clothes, her appearance and behavior are very different from the women of our dynasty. Who can’t tell? They even shouted loudly on the streets. Who can’t hear them?”

Ning Fei was a little confused: “…Ah? He and a foreign woman…?!”

“That’s right. I was shocked when I first heard about it,” Steward Liu looked around, lowered his voice, and said, “But His Highness seems to know about this, and no one cares about that foreign woman and her followers. I’m afraid it’s difficult for others to interfere.”

Ning Fei remembered the keywords he had just heard: “Even if he wants to marry her, the position of second wife is too absurd…”

“Who says it isn’t?” Steward Liu chuckled. “The matter of his engagement with the Prime Minister’s daughter was widely rumored before. If he dares to raise a foreign woman to the position of second wife, how can the Prime Minister sit idly by?”

–Not just a foreign woman, even the Prime Minister’s daughter too…? Aren’t these all targets that the original owner wanted to avenge?

Ning Fei cursed inwardly as he listened.

–They’ve alreadylianyin, allied through marriage. What revenge are they talking about?! Whatlan huo, bad work was my crappy colleague doing before?

Speaking of the devil, the contact signal from his colleague, Chong Lin, rang at this moment.

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This volume will be relatively short, it’s a transitional volume! But the plot is still exciting, some important things will happen, hee hee hee!

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