Cannon fodder in the Interstellar

Ruo Manni once again dialed Captain Lin’s communicator. She still owed a gift to her nephew, Leandro Ferreira, and as a clueless and underage person, she didn’t know what to give without asking Captain Lin for advice.

Receiving gifts was easy, but giving them was a real headache.

She also informed Captain Lin that she had acquired property on Emperor Star, and he looked at her with a complex expression.

“Shouldn’t I have accepted it?” Ruo Manni asked, somewhat surprised.

“It’s not that; you can’t refuse the acceptance gift from your master. Refusing it would imply that you’re unwilling to be their disciple. However, your big brother’s gift is a bit excessive. You should return something to him. Luckily, he has disciples, so you can return it through them; I’ll think it over carefully.”

“Alright.” Ruo Manni trusted Captain Lin’s ability to handle matters. Once she passed the troubling issue to her guardian, she felt much lighter.

“Uncle Lin, let’s have the mentor and Shangke transfer their household registration to Emperor Star first. That way, Shangke can attend the intermediate academy in Emperor Star the year after next.”

“Are you sure? The household registration quotas for Emperor Star are extremely precious. If auctioned, each quota could fetch at least seven or eight million credit points.” Captain Lin didn’t agree right away.

Ruo Manni hadn’t expected them to be worth that much, which highlighted how valuable these household registration quotas for Emperor Star truly were.

“I’m quite certain.” Ruo Manni looked at Captain Lin with unwavering determination.

If this were a peaceful interstellar era, Ruo Manni might hesitate, but in such a harsh environment, what good is earning so many credit points?

“I’ll discuss it with your mentor, and you should think it over as well,” Captain Lin said without any flowery words.

Out of gratitude, the couple had extended a hand to protect her when she became an orphan. However, now that she hadn’t even grown up yet, she was already trying to repay them, and Captain Lin didn’t know what to say.

Having a household registration in the central star domain was indeed something he desperately needed and had been wanting for the past two years. However, he was reluctant to return to the family he had abandoned over twenty years ago, and for the past few years, the Lin family had been suppressing him, preventing him from obtaining a household registration in the central star domain.

Unless he was willing to become a vassal of the Lin family with his wife and child, but he was unwilling to be tied to that predatory family again.

Ruo Manni didn’t say much either. Captain Lin understood the situation regarding the alien threat; as a man who loved his wife and child, he wouldn’t hesitate for long.

With her newfound income, Ruo Manni didn’t become complacent; instead, she formulated a more long-term plan.

To achieve this plan, she needed to earn even more credit points.

Ruo Manni decided that she would try to enter the war realm every night and quickly level up to level ten. In the novel, the income from dungeons was the most substantial, especially the first-kill rewards, which offered generous gold bonuses.

Originally, Ruo Manni planned to level up her player rank to level ten before the school year started. However, after participating in the special training, she was only at level eight. The experience bar was already over halfway full, and after five or six more days of leveling tasks, she should be able to reach level nine.

But there was no use in being anxious; the war realm didn’t have any single-player dungeons, so she couldn’t level up to ten on her own.

Over the past few months, it wasn’t just Ruo Manni who was leveling up slowly; Hua Deli, ranked above her, was also only at level eight. On the entire youth leaderboard, only the player ranked first, known as “Imperial Prince,” had reached level nine.

The female lead, Xianxian Yufei, had also fallen from fifth place in the novel to somewhere in the teens.

In Ruo Manni’s memory, Hua Deli was always ranked first in the novel. She wasn’t sure if there was a player called Imperial Prince in the novel, but she could confirm that none of the players in the top ten of the youth leaderboard were named Imperial Prince.

In reality, the names of the players on the youth leaderboard seemed to have been shuffled; the first-place Hua Deli had dropped to second place, while Ruo Manni, the anonymous variable player, was in third place. The fifth-place Xianxian Yu Fei was now ranked fifteenth.

However, Ruomanni clearly remembered that the IDs of the two players ranked fourth and fifth, “I’m the Senior” and “Senior’s Teammate,” were both among the top ten in the novel. It seemed that they were students from the Xuan Gu First Military Academy.

According to the timeline of the novel, Hua Deli should have reached level ten this month. But he was still at level eight; it was nothing but a dream for him to reach level ten in the remaining four days of the month.

Since the second prince appeared in the special training team and she witnessed his formidable overall strength, Ruo Manni began to suspect whether the player known as Imperial Prince was, in fact, the second prince.

It should be known that 99.9% of the top young elites in the Gus Empire have entered the Xuan Gu First Military Academy.

Currently, among the students of the Xuan Gu First Military Academy—no, it should be said, among the minors in the Gus Empire—only the second prince is a level-five warrior. No one among the youth is stronger than him.

So in the youth group of the war realm, who else could be stronger than the second prince? And who, besides the second prince, would choose such an unremarkably clichè ID like “Imperial Prince”?

Ruo Manni really enjoyed checking the youth leaderboard. Every time she saw changes that were different from the novel, it put her in a good mood because it meant there were more variables.

Especially with a powerful figure like the second prince, whose high status and influence are significant variables, as long as he doesn’t act as rebelliously as he does in the novel and works together with the first prince, his impact in the war would be immeasurable.

One wonders what kind of experts the first prince brought in to develop the game War Realm; it truly has real benefits for humanity.

If it weren’t for the cultivation methods and martial arts provided by War Realm, along with the gold chest pin that could produce gold coins, Ruo Manni definitely wouldn’t be able to navigate this new world so easily after her rebirth.

With Li Qixing no longer on Imperial Capital Star and Rick Amber helping her fine-tune the mech, Ruo Manni began her planned training again on the third day.

During the day, Ruo Manni was busy in the training hall, studying related cultural knowledge at night, and entering the battle realm to complete tasks; time passed in the blink of an eye.

The gift that Captain Lin had chosen for Ruo Manni arrived in her hands by the next evening. The speed of logistics in the interstellar age was astonishing.

Ruo Manni looked at it and saw that it was the latest practical instrument for mech manufacturers. This was a consumable item, and since Leandro Ferreira was a mech manufacturer, the gift was very suitable for him.

This greeting gift was worth around two hundred thousand credit points. Although it couldn’t compare to the gift Rick Amber had given her, considering Ruo Manni’s background and age, this gift was quite impressive.

After Ruo Manni left, Leandro Ferreira finally took a look at the unexpected gift, and it surprised him greatly.

Although Ruo Manni was nominally his little master, she was still a girl who was two or three years younger than him, and yet she had the audacity to give such an expensive gift.

Rick Amber nodded and said, “If she can offer it, you should accept it. Don’t underestimate her because of her background; this girl is very generous. It will be good for you to run errands for her more often in the future.”