Chapter 167 Interstellar Trip

Lili heard Hao Ren's call and immediately rushed out of the room with afterimages. The next second, Hao Ren pinned her on the coffee table as she flailed and protested, "Landlord, you can't learn from bats! Huskies have dignity too!"

"Alright, you already know you're a husky spirit, and you're still talking about dignity with me," Hao Ren knew Lili wasn't serious, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to hold down Lili, who had the brute strength of a siege tank. So, after teasing her, he let the husky girl go. "A mission came down, we have to go on a long trip, a really, really long trip. The kind where you're absolutely going to have acclimatization problems. And this time, we can only take two people—one of them is the new Nangong Wuyue. Who among you three is willing to come along?"

"Me, me, me!" Lili didn't even hear what the mission was and jumped up, waving her hand. "I'll go with you, I'm super awesome! And now I can even use my claws to release water vapor and dig holes. You say running away to find cover, or digging a hole to hide myself, I'm good at both!"

"That's nothing to be proud of," Vivian pushed Lili away. "Instead of that, why don't you study some proper moves. Landlord, where are we going exactly? Anyway, I'm idle at home, so I don't mind going with you. Besides, I'm familiar with every corner of the Earth."

Vivian still had the nerve to say "she's familiar with every corner of the Earth". It seemed the last time she messed up in the British Isles didn't leave a deep enough impression on her.

"Uh, you guys might not have a concept of the distance..." Hao Ren looked at these two Earth-native fantastic creatures in front of him, and suddenly felt that the high-end concept of "interstellar travel" didn't quite match them. "Eight hundred and ninety-five light-years away."

Lili: "..." Vivian: "..."

"Oh my..." Lili was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses, sticking out her tongue in amazement. "Landlord, are you kidding?"

"Real deal," Hao Ren felt it was a bit unreal too, his tone also amused. "This time, we're still going to pick someone up. A new tenant messed up like Izhaks when getting off the spaceship. But this time, the spaceship had a problem, so it went off course by eight hundred light-years..."

Hao Ren explained the situation he heard from Raven, explaining why Nangong Wuyue had to take one of the spots, and also mentioned that he could teleport to the Kuiper Station. Finally, he looked at Lili very seriously. "This isn't for fun. Last time we went to England, at least it was still on Earth. It was acceptable even if it was just sightseeing. But this time, where we're going... I really have no idea. I heard it's an Earth-like planet, but the ecological environment and stuff will definitely be different from here. I need someone who's bold, meticulous, brave, resourceful, and well-informed."

"I'm bold!" Lili's voice was particularly loud for the first half of the sentence, but the second half was almost muffled in her stomach. "Only bold..."

"We're actually going to an alien planet..." Vivian, who was usually mature and steady, couldn't help but click her tongue repeatedly. This matter was beyond her experience. "To be honest, I was so surprised when I first learned that humans had flown out of the atmosphere. Although I knew the Earth was round a long time ago, I never thought anyone could fly to other planets. When Apollo landed on the moon, I almost wanted to hang on the rocket and go see the world... Luckily I didn't go, otherwise I would have died in the stratosphere. Landlord, honestly, I really want to go."

"I want to too," Lili squatted on the sofa on all fours like a dog, lowered her head, and bumped Hao Ren's arm a few times with her head, her tone pitiful. "Just take me along as poverty alleviation, let me see the world, okay? I promise not to mess around, and I won't sleep while walking."

"No, I don't think either of us is suitable," Vivian shook her head, her expression very serious. "Big Dog, this really isn't for playing around. We can't help. The most suitable person should be Big Guy. Let him go with the Landlord."

Hao Ren looked at Vivian in surprise, seeing a reassuring and reliable side in her eyes. This virtuous vampire girl was indeed more reliable than Lili, the husky. At least she knew the importance of things.

"Speaking of experience... I do have some space travel experience," Izhaks hadn't said anything until now, but when he spoke, he didn't decline. "I used spatial magic to explore the satellites near my hometown a few times before. Later, I also rode in the Empire's spaceship. I know what spaceship life is like, and I've seen civilian flights—but my experience is limited to this. If you really want to go to a larger Earth-like planet for exploration, or identify star charts... I'm the same as you guys."

"It's okay, we don't need to worry about that. It's enough that you have experience riding a spaceship," Hao Ren clapped his hands. "Then you don't have any plans for the next few days? Come with me on a business trip?"

"Sure," Izhaks smiled honestly. "Anyway, I can't find a job for the time being. When are we leaving?"

Hao Ren took out the data terminal, opened the log, and glanced at it. "We can leave within three days. It says we'll be riding a civilian transport ship, and this ship will transfer in the solar system, staying for three days. Oh right, after Nangong Wuyue comes back, discuss it with her. She probably doesn't know about this yet. That Raven 12345 does everything impulsively."

Lili muttered beside him, "I want to go, I want to go, I want to go..." Her appearance was just like when she saw a meaty bone and kept muttering, "I want to eat it."

"There will be opportunities soon," Hao Ren patted Lili's head. "My private spaceship will be down soon, and I can take you all over the universe then, so don't bite the sofa cushions."

After some comforting, Lili finally calmed down, holding a box of cookies and returning to her room to continue watching TV.

Although Vivian couldn't go with them, she seemed to care about this matter as much as Hao Ren. At this time, she was thinking about something on the side, and suddenly blurted out a series of questions, "Speaking of which, what do you need to prepare for this kind of business trip? Is the food and drink on the spaceship convenient? What about a change of clothes? Will there be diseases on alien planets that Earth medicine can't deal with? Isn't that Kuiper station you mentioned not run by Earthlings? It should be all aliens there, right? Are they easy to deal with? Can your translation system translate alien languages, Landlord?"

A series of questions made Hao Ren a little dazed. He stared blankly at Vivian, vaguely seeing the shadow of his old mother, and feeling that it was a bit like a young housewife who was flustered for the first time packing her luggage. These unreliable associations flashed through his mind, and finally, he couldn't help but laugh and let Vivian calm down. "Don't worry, don't worry, you don't need to worry about anything. Just prepare a few clean clothes for me. According to Raven, everything else has been arranged, and someone will pick us up at the Kuiper Station. Oh right, Terminal, I just remembered—how do we solve the problem of eating on alien planets?"

"If you're willing to go all out, you can eat the synthetic food at the Kuiper Station, but I can't guarantee the taste of that stuff, and I can't even guarantee whether you can absorb it, after all, the Kuiper Station buys universal organic matter researched by civilian general standard companies, and the adapted population doesn't even include Earthlings. If Miss Vivian doesn't mind the trouble, prepare some easy-to-store food, it's better than sawdust-flavored compressed biscuits."

Hao Ren and Vivian also calmed down from their excitement and began to seriously consider what they needed to prepare for this trip. While listening to the data terminal's introduction, Hao Ren couldn't help but sigh, "At this time, I really envy those protagonists with storage space... They don't even need to prepare suitcases."

"You'll have it eventually," the data terminal said on the side. "When your evaluation goes up a bit more, the benefits and permissions of a formal employee will be in place one after another. What formal employee of the Empire doesn't have a personal space with them?"

Hao Ren was stunned for a moment: "They even have that!?"

"Why can't they?" The data terminal was even more surprised than Hao Ren. "You're working for a god, can't you raise your expectations a bit?"

Hao Ren wanted to say that every time he met Raven 12345, his internal expectations would drop by at least ten percentage points, but after thinking about it, there was a high possibility that the crazy goddess would have a whim and eavesdrop, so he didn't dare to say it.

It was already past five o'clock in the afternoon when Nangong Wuyue came back from the city by car. Hao Ren told her about this important matter, and the siren girl seemed particularly overjoyed—as a siren, she loved to travel the most!

Although Hao Ren felt that taking a spaceship to a desolate planet eight hundred light-years away to perform a mission had nothing to do with traveling...

In this way, the selection of personnel and preparations for this super-long-distance business trip were finally settled. On a sunny afternoon with lush grass and flying warblers, Hao Ren and two assistants (demon and siren) each burned incense, bathed, and changed clothes, ready to teleport to the Kuiper Station.