Chapter 57: Transfer
Su Xiao’s decisive refusal made Shabao frown. She hadn’t even had a chance to say who she wanted to kill or what she was willing to pay.
“No room for negotiation?”
Shabao was clearly unwilling to give up, because independent contractors as strong as Su Xiao who could negotiate peacefully were actually quite rare.
“I have no interest in getting involved in other people’s grudges. Besides, we’re just in a buyer-seller relationship.”
“If that’s the case, then forget it.”
Shabao could tell that Su Xiao wouldn’t accept her commission, so she got straight to the point.
“Transferring an adventure group isn’t complicated. Once the transfer conditions are met, you just need to go to the Adventure Group Guild for notarization.”
“Wait one minute.”
Su Xiao signaled to Amu to eat quickly. Amu stopped chewing, his gaze seeming to ask Su Xiao: “Can I eat freely now?”
“Eat freely.”
As Su Xiao spoke, he stood up and stepped back a few paces. Bubu Wang beside him did the same.
“What’s this?”
Shabao clearly didn’t understand what was happening, but Amu had already straightened his back and reached his two large hands around the dining table in front of him.
Crackle, clatter—dishes collided as Amu scooped up large amounts of food along with the plates and began stuffing them into his mouth.
Crunch, crunch…
The crisp chewing sounds spread throughout the entire restaurant. All the diners’ gazes turned to Amu. Some worker-type contractors were stunned.
For Amu, plates were like cookies—digestible ‘food’ with a crispy texture.
Fifteen seconds later, the food on the table was swept clean, not even the utensils remaining. Amu let out a satisfied burp.
A drop of soup dripped from Shabao’s mask. She clenched her fist, her body trembling slightly. It was clear she had severe germophobia.
“Can we… go now?”
Shabao held a wet wipe, repeatedly wiping the mask on her face.
“Does transferring an adventure group require a fee?”
“Probably not. I’m not familiar with the details. This is my first time transferring an adventure group.”
The group left the restaurant and arrived at a magnificent building over twenty minutes later.
This building was several hundred meters tall, with a very large base. The upper part of the structure was shaped like a giant sword. This was the Adventure Group Guild.
Su Xiao’s group stood before the at least dozens-of-meters-wide gate of the Adventure Group Guild. The metal doors were wide open. Not many contractors entered or exited the Adventure Group Guild, but those who did all looked hurried.
Entering the Adventure Group Guild, the entrance was a hall of at least ten thousand square meters. Only a few people were inside, chatting about something.
There was no reception desk or anything like that, but the black marble floor was marked with the building’s layout.
The adventure group transfer facilities were on the first floor. In fact, all publicly accessible facilities of the Adventure Group Guild were on the first floor. There were no stairs leading to the upper floors at all.
There were too many functions here. Su Xiao wouldn’t use most of them. He would only use three types: adventure group transfer, adventure group rank upgrade, and the intelligence trading platform.
The first two functions could only be used inside the Adventure Group Guild. The third, the intelligence trading platform, was somewhat similar to the derivative world contact platform model, except this trading platform didn’t allow posting. Various types of intelligence were listed for sale.
Su Xiao couldn’t access this trading platform yet, so he and Shabao walked deeper into the Adventure Group Guild.
Before long, the group found the facilities used for transferring adventure groups. These were a row of large machines that looked like ATMs.
Su Xiao approached one of the machines and pressed his hand on the screen. Shabao pressed her hand on it at the same time.
[Yes/No to join the Starfire Adventure Group.]
“No.”
Su Xiao immediately refused. This machine wasn’t only for transferring adventure groups; it also had functions like joining adventure groups and upgrading adventure group ranks.
[Public Notice: Starfire Adventure Group Vice Leader has initiated the adventure group transfer function.]
[Judging…]
[All members of Starfire Adventure Group have agreed to the transfer. This transfer is pending confirmation.]
…
Shabao stood still, her gaze fixed straight ahead. For some reason, scenes from long ago came to mind.
Bald Leader: “Hey, woman over there, want to join us? Your strength isn’t bad. You’re qualified to join us.”
Shabao: “I refuse. You’re… too weak.”
Bald Leader: “Is that so? Then let’s fight.”
Twenty seconds later.
Shabao: “You’re despicable!”
Bald Leader: “Did I say I was going to fight you one-on-one? This is the power of a team. A team is a community of interests. As long as the interest chain is stable, you can gather people with different personalities and make them do the same thing.”
Shabao: “A team… fine, I’ll join.”
Bald Leader: “Wise choice.”
…
The memory ended there. Shabao took a deep breath. Those things were now in the past.
“Agree to the transfer.”
[Public Notice: Transfer request has been approved.]
[Contractor Bai Ye has become the leader of Starfire Adventure Group.]
…
As soon as Su Xiao took over Starfire Adventure Group, a flood of private notifications appeared.
[Hunter has become the leader of Starfire Adventure Group.]
Adventure Group Name: Starfire
Adventure Group Rank: B-Rank
Leader: Bai Ye
Vice Leader: Shabao
Full Members: 24 people.
Temporary Members: 2 people.
Adventure Group Mode: Multiplayer.
Team Space: Frozen.
Team Skill 1: Prelude of Glory (Passive: When settling derivative world rewards, comprehensive evaluation is increased by 1 rank. Cannot raise comprehensive evaluation to S+.)
…
[Notice: Hunter does not hold the Leader’s Certificate. To generate the Leader’s Certificate, 10,000 Paradise Coins are required.]
Su Xiao didn’t generate the Leader’s Certificate for now. He was checking the information on Starfire Adventure Group.
After seeing Starfire Adventure Group’s team skill, Su Xiao narrowed his eyes. Team skills were indeed very special. Starfire’s skill was actually increasing the comprehensive evaluation by 1 rank.
With the blessing of this skill, if Su Xiao obtained an S- comprehensive evaluation, it would be treated as an S-rank evaluation.
The process for settling derivative world rewards was as follows: first, the amount of World Source was judged, then the number of completed tasks was judged. The combination of the two resulted in the comprehensive evaluation.
In other words, the higher the comprehensive evaluation, the richer the rewards when settling a derivative world. Starfire Adventure Group’s team ability was an auxiliary growth-type skill, a relatively rare skill. At least before this, Su Xiao had never seen such a skill.
He didn’t know what kind of incredible luck Starfire Adventure Group had to draw such a B-rank auxiliary growth-type skill. If they could get an S- comprehensive evaluation every time, their team’s strength would increase rapidly. The team skill was much stronger than Su Xiao had anticipated.
Unfortunately, good steel should be used on the blade’s edge. Starfire had used this ability to raise a B-rank evaluation to B+ rank. Their best result was raising A+ to S-, and it was because of that time that they successfully advanced to the third rank.
[Notice: Vice Leader Shabao requests to leave the adventure group without penalty.]
[Notice: Full Member Like requests to leave the adventure group without penalty.]
[Notice…]
A series of notifications appeared. Su Xiao approved them one by one.
“Starfire… is yours now. I hope…”
Shabao was a bit emotional, but she suddenly realized that Starfire Adventure Group had actually ceased to exist long ago. The moment the interest chain broke, it was already a group in name only. Thinking of this, Shabao cast those memories aside.
“If you don’t fight with all your might, you’ll always be a salted fish. And I… crave strength. The grudges from before end here. If we have a chance to meet again—no, it’s still too early to say such big words.”
Shabao took out a scroll and tore it apart directly. Space-time power surged. Before coming here, she had purchased a large amount of supplies. Now, she used a World Key to directly enter a certain derivative world. Becoming stronger wasn’t something you could just talk about; it required taking actual action and bearing the risk of dying at any moment.
Shabao disappeared. It seemed she had been spurred on by the ‘team wipeout’ incident.
Su Xiao wasn’t too concerned about what Shabao would do next. After all, everyone had different choices. Instead of worrying about what would happen to Shabao, Su Xiao needed to quickly handle the adventure group matters: changing the name, clearing out the current members, changing the team mode, and so on.
Not only that, Su Xiao had other things to do, like opening a pile of treasure chests and selling a large number of items. The items obtained from the scattered individuals, although high in total value, would take some time to process. Those people, in order to survive, had taken out everything of value, short of stripping their equipment. That was why they had lived.