The Highest Bounty

Chapter 41: Can Someone Without a Bounty be Called an Interstellar Pirate?

Liliath was only fourteen years old. She kept being extremely reticent about her origins. Gu Ding tried to ask her some questions, but when he saw her keeping silent, he stopped. He knew that everyone had their own secrets, so he never liked to pry into the lives of others.

However, Gu Ding knew that Liliath’s identity was not so simple. She had two sets of bronze-grade combat armor of her own. One was a full-body combat armor while the other was a firearm-type, special combat armor.

The price of a bronze-grade combat armor was at least 1 billion Star Credits. As for the firearm-type special combat armor, they were amongst the most valuable of the combat armors. It would have costed at least 3 billion Star Credits. On top of that, the bronze-grade combat armors themselves were things that could not normally be found in the market. They were extremely hard to come by in the market.

Liliath’s wristwatch, embedded with three pure white stones, was a luxurious version of the A-grade wristwatch. Gu Ding still remembered watching the advertisement of this wristwatch. He vaguely remembered that this watch seemed to be called “Angel’s Love”. As for the market price, it seemed to be around 3 billion Star Credits. At that time, it was also said to be limited edition, there were only a thousand pieces in the entire Dragon Soar Cosmic Nation.

Every sign indicated that Liliath was rich.

If he was a person with bad intentions, his head would be filled with thoughts of murder and robbery at that moment. However, for Gu Ding, other party was just a helpless little girl.

“How did you wind up on this planet?” Liliath had some concern about Gu Ding’s identity. She had passed through several star sectors, and, along the way, many people had malevolent thoughts towards her.

“I was brought here by the interstellar storm,” Gu Ding felt that there was nothing to explain. He spent most of his time asleep throughout the whole journey, not knowing what had transpired in between.

“Is your spaceship still here?” Liliath perked up at the answer.

“It’s been destroyed, so I planned to go to the shipyard to see if there are any intact spaceships.”

“There is a shipyard on this planet? How did you know? My watch couldn’t locate its position, let alone know any information of this planet.” Liliath was a little taken aback as, in her opinion, the watch on Gu Ding’s wrist was just an ordinary civilian wristwatch. Its functionality was definitely not as good as the one she had.

“The grey star sector cannot be located because after the federal government gave up on the star sector, the relevant information was not publicly updated. Only some information of when the star sectors had not yet been abandoned decades ago can be accessed. However, the interstellar storm blocked the network signals recently and there was no way to log on to the Skynet to obtain the relevant information.” Gu Ding did not explain how he knew there was a shipyard on this planet.

After Liliath finished listening, she did not press further as she hid many secrets of her own. When the other party was unwilling to share, it was meant that it was not convenient for them to disclose the information. Therefore, there was no need to delve into it. Of course, she did not forget to remind Gu Ding, “Monsters on this planet will be active at night. There will be some very powerful entities that you and I can’t handle. I don’t know why, but they will not come close to this volcanic area. If it wasn’t for this volcano, I am afraid I would not have been able to survive until today.”

“This virus does not like the hot environment, so it won’t make the hosts’ bodies come close to hot areas. I will leave this area tomorrow morning, do you want to come with me? Although I don’t know if there are any intact spaceships over at the shipyard, checking it out won’t do any harm. If it’s really unusable, we’ll figure out another way out later. This planet is very dangerous. The longer you stay, the greater the chances of dying.” Gu Ding felt that abandoning the other party was akin to murder.

“Are you a scientist?” Liliath did not immediately answer Gu Ding’s question. Thus, she asked this instead.

“I’m an interstellar pirate.” Gu Ding corrected.

“Really?” Liliath seemed more interested after hearing this. She blinked twice and asked, “So, how much is your bounty?”

“Cough, cough...” Gu Ding was reluctant to talk about this topic. “I just left my home star less than a week ago...”

“Then, there isn’t a bounty on your head yet?” Liliath seemed disappointed as she whispered to herself, “Can a person without a bounty even be considered an interstellar pirate?”

Gu Ding was speechless after hearing this.

Moments later, Liliath asked again, “What about your partner? Did you guys lose each other?”

“I haven’t recruited any yet...” Gu Ding took a bigger blow when he heard this question.

Liliath was a little puzzled and murmured by the side, “Shouldn’t an interstellar pirate recruit someone before heading out?”

Gu Ding sat silently beside her. Hearing these two questions from Liliath, he also began to doubt whether or not he was a real interstellar pirate. With no bounty, and no partner, it sounded like he was more of an interstellar wanderer.

“Gu Ding, can I join your team?” After a brief pause, Liliath became determined.

“Aren’t you too young?” Gu Ding was a bit confused. He knew that a marksman would be indispensable in a team. However, because of this, the position was not one that was easily offered to others.

“Pfft, how old are you?” Liliath retorted, “I’m very powerful. The teacher who taught me before said I was a genius.”

“Well, if you can prove that you are a good marksman, I will think about it.” Gu Ding did not think that Liliath, being 14, had good marksmanship.

“I’ll hold you to that, come with me!” Liliath quickly took Gu Ding down the mountainside. The two hid behind a boulder, after which she handed Gu Ding an infrared telescope. Then, she summoned the firearm-type combat armor.

The combat armor instantly changed into a large sniper rifle. The moment she got the gun, Liliath’s demeanour began to change. She was clearly becoming serious. She installed the silencer onto the muzzle of the gun after taking it out. Then, she loaded the magazine by grabbing a few bullets from the storage space.

“This is a custom-made light energy bullet, which is particularly good against these monsters.” She lowered her voice to explain. She then lifted the big sniper rifle that stood as tall as her shoulder. “Watch closely!”

Gu Ding raised the telescope and looked in the direction she was aiming. After hearing the sound of the trigger being pulled, he saw a monster shot dead in the head.

Followed by the second, the third, the fourth...

Every monster was shot in the head. On top of this, the location of the shots were always right on the left eye.

Liliath loaded another round of ammo, maintaining her precise aim.

“What terrifying marksmanship!” Gu Ding could not help sighing to himself. At this moment, he also noticed that Liliath’s eyes turned golden as she shot.

“Her eyes should have the pupil technique inherited from her genes. It seems that the ability is not low-grade, whilst her accuracy should just be an additional effect of the pupil technique.” Neptune also noticed this. “Let her join, she is an extremely good investment.”

“How was that?” Putting down the gun, Liliath’s eyes returned to normal. She smiled at Gu Ding with pride.

“Good marksmanship, but I can’t accept you.” Gu Ding shook his head. Liliath’s identity was obviously not so straightforward. “I will get you off this planet, but you should return to your parents as soon as possible...”

Liliath, who initially had a smile on her face, suddenly stiffened after hearing this. After a while, her voice lowered, “My parents are dead...”