Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 305 Liquidated Damages

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The name of the hotpot restaurant recommended by Qin Zhao is "Xinghailao", which is located at the corner of the Chinese gourmet restaurant in the East Fourth District. Ke Lan once saw their advertisement on the Internet, claiming to be the original Sichuan hotpot from the old era , Alien ingredients with the flavor of Planet Alpha are all available--the first half of the advertisement will not make any comments, but the second half of the sentence, in his opinion, is probably just an eye-catching gimmick.

There are only a few types of meat from the indigenous creatures of Planet Alpha that can be used as ingredients, and these types of meat need to go through dozens of complicated processing procedures before being served on the table... Of course, the complexity of the process is not the key, the key is Even if they are processed well, their taste is really unflattering. In addition, there are radiation and toxins that cannot be completely removed. Eating too much will affect the health of the body...

To sum it up in one sentence: expensive, unpalatable, and not safe at all—that is, only in the first ten years before the Ark landed on Alpha Planet, would someone choose these ingredients for curiosity or to show off their wealth... As for now, Almost no one would spend more than ten times the price of real meat to eat something that is harder to swallow than cheap synthetic meat.

"The store recommended by Qin Zhao is not very reliable..." With such doubts, Ke Lan pushed open the door of "Xing Hai Lao".

Entering from the gate, there is a T-shaped corridor, which divides the entire store into two areas. The area on the right hand side is called "A area". The ingredients on the menu are mainly synthetic meat, soybean protein products and hydroponics. The per capita consumption of vegetables is low; while the "S area" on the left hand side is full of real meat and cultivated plants, and you can even see many expensive alcoholic beverages on the menu.

The box that the hounds and the others booked was the largest "box zero" in the S area.

When Ke Lan and Zofia walked into the private room, everyone else had already arrived. Except for Qin Zhao's somewhat restrained performance, the hound and others had already let go of their stomachs and ate.

"If you don't come here, we will eat all the good things." The hound yelled at Ke Lan while skillfully scooping up the fat cow in the pot with chopsticks.

"Yeah, these ingredients are limited every week, basically all of them are here." Layton chewed with puffed cheeks, and even his voice became slurred.

"This roast leg of lamb is really good." Zhuoligetu also nodded in agreement. He held a roast leg of lamb more than half a meter long in his hand, but compared with his muscular body, This lamb leg looks very petite and slender.

"..." Ke Lan wanted to complain a few words at first, but at this moment Zofia suddenly came up, and in front of everyone, she took his arm as if declaring her sovereignty, and led him to the end of the table. Above two vacancies.

"It doesn't matter. If the ingredients in this store are not enough, I can send another batch from the consortium's cold storage." Zofia said.

"Uh... does this restaurant still allow diners to bring their own ingredients?" Ke Lan asked a little puzzled.

"Three hours ago, it was already owned by the Soma Consortium." Zofia smiled.

"..." Ke Lan always felt that he had picked up some script like "the domineering president falls in love with me" by mistake. The difference is that the genders of the protagonist and the CEO are reversed.

This is probably the legendary "eating soft rice"?

"I said Ke Lan, you boy, don't act like you are cheap and good-looking." The hound waved the chopsticks in his hand, "It doesn't matter if the rice is hard or soft, it is good if it smells good. Let me tell you, so For such an outstanding woman as Miss Ma, there are countless suitors, and it is also a manifestation of your ability that you can stand out from so many people, right?"

"But the problem is that I didn't pursue her at all—" Ke Lan couldn't help but said in his heart, a solo mother like him...ah no, to be precise, it should be a top widow who has been alone since the artificial womb Wang, he has no concept of love at all... What's more, in his opinion, Zofia's engagement to him was purely intended to be used as a shield at the beginning, and there was no such thing as a relationship between the two. any emotional basis.

This is the main reason why Ke Lan has always felt awkward... He always felt that Zofia's choice of herself was more out of a purpose of maximizing benefits, rather than the emotion between ordinary opposite sexes.

But what puzzled him was... If it was to maximize the benefits, she should also choose to have a commercial marriage with the heirs or young masters of those big families, instead of a relic hunter with no background like herself.

Although Ke Lan has accumulated a considerable amount of capital after these several explorations, and the fame of the few of them has gradually spread in the hunter circle, but compared with those behemoths that have been in business for many generations , this achievement is simply insignificant.

Unless Ke Lan exposes his secrets... However, the price of doing that is completely losing the freedom for the rest of his life.

Ke Lan has never been able to understand the brain circuits of the male protagonists in those female-frequent novels: why would a male protagonist with impeccable background, ability, and appearance fall in love with a male protagonist with no background, good looks, let alone his own abilities? The world-shocking silly and sweet heroine, the only commendable quality of a heroine like this is probably innocence and kindness... But in the real world, things like innocence and kindness may be the most worthless thing something.

While Ke Lan was still thinking about Zofia's purpose, the hound put down his chopsticks, cleared his throat, and said seriously: "Now everyone is here, and the shareholders and biggest sponsors of our hunting group Miss Soma is also present, there is one thing I have to say first... This matter is related to Qin Zhao, I think, if we don't settle this matter first, I guess the little girl won't be in the mood to eat today."

"What's the matter?" Ke Lan was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Qin Zhao who was sitting aside—even though the hot pot in the box was full of steam, the girl's face was still a little pale, and the tableware in front of her was basically untouched Pass.

"The Polaris Hunting Group signed internship contracts with those rookie hunters who entered the tiankeng before. You should know that, right?" the hunting dog said to Ke Lan.

"I know, what's wrong?"

"They were fooled. Those bastards from Polaris buried a lot of traps in the contract. I only realized it after reading the text of the contract... This fucking is not an internship contract at all, but a contract of prostitution! "

There was a hint of anger in the hound's words, and he continued: "Generally speaking, with a formal internship contract, if the intern hunter feels that the hunting group is not suitable for him, he can choose to terminate the contract and leave at any time, as long as he does not cause any actual loss to the hunting group. , after returning the equipment, the hunting group will not embarrass him... Even if some hunting groups are relatively tricky, at most they will only charge a training fee that is not too large."

"However," the hound's voice suddenly increased a few degrees, "this group of scumbags from Polaris, in addition to tricking newcomers into S-level ruins to do that kind of high-risk mining operations, they also set a breach of contract in the contract Jin, if the intern hunter terminates the contract before completing five exploration missions, he must pay the North Star Hunting Group this liquidated damages."

"But this kind of liquidated damages can't be set too high, right? If it's a sky-high liquidated damages, even if the management department doesn't intervene, it's impossible for the interns to sign this kind of contract... They're not stupid..." Ke Lan puzzled.

"That's true, but the cunning of Polaris lies in the fact that the liquidated damages they set vary according to the hunter's own qualifications... If you are a pure rookie without any exploration experience, the liquidated damages you need to pay if you choose to terminate the contract are not enough. Up to fifty credit points, but if this rookie completes even one mining task, then a record of 'successful exploration of S-level ruins' will be added to his qualifications, so the amount of liquidated damages will naturally increase."

The hound paused, and then said: "And Qin Zhao's exploration records are bound to us... In other words, she can be regarded as a member who discovered the core control center of the bottomless sinkhole... If she wants to If you terminate the contract and come to our hunting group, you need to pay liquidated damages...about 8700 million credit points."

"So much?" Hearing this figure, Ke Lan was also a little surprised. Although they couldn't afford the money, they just handed over 700 more than [-] million to the Polaris Hunting Group. People feel bad all over.

What's more, the 700, more than [-] is just to recruit an intern who has just entered the industry...

(End of this chapter)