Chapter 335 Atlas Civil Aviation Credit Coin Cheongsam Assessment

Since arriving in the "Halo" universe a few years ago, Leon has continued to assist the company, infiltrating the jurisdictions of the UNSC and UEG, and performing various key tasks that contribute to integration.

For example, he was deployed to Arcadia, Reach, and Halo Earth in different capacities.

This is equivalent to that he has been working continuously for two years.

After finally surviving the unification war in the "Halo" universe, I returned to the main universe at the beginning of this year, ready to enjoy a rare vacation.

Who would have thought that he had just applied for a visa and took the company's civilian flight to Mars at his own expense. Before he could lay on the golden beach of Mars to bask in the sun and admire the bikini girls with "explosive" figures, he received a notice from the company.

You need to arrive at the space gate before 12:00 Pacific Time on March 26.

The company did not specify what tasks it was going to perform, nor did it mention the personnel involved in the operation.

So Lyon immediately sent an application to the company, hoping that Mike Monady, who was also an elite investigator, would perform this mission for him.

Unfortunately, the company rejected the decision and clearly stated in the reply email:

"Dear Mr. Kennedy, your direct superior specifically requested you to carry out this operation.

In order to compensate you for your lost vacation, the company will provide you with two additional months of monthly salary and an additional 30% year-end bonus.

At the same time, one thing the company can guarantee is that this mission does not require contact with any known aliens or heretics, it is just a routine investigation operation. "

After receiving the reply email, Lyon had no choice but to leave the golden beach, check out the high-end suite he had booked, quickly called a maglev taxi, and rushed to the orbital elevator to prepare for returning to the earth.

However, since I got into the taxi, either the French driver was chattering away, or I would encounter some traffic conditions.

For example, the private hovercraft that just forcibly broke into the waterway.

Even if Leon is accustomed to this, the inexplicable traffic accidents surrounding him, and no matter how good-tempered he is, he will inevitably feel unhappy.

immediately.

Leon took out his mobile phone and turned on the screen.

After seeing the time displayed on the screen as "2004/03/26/07:17PST", he turned to look at the French driver beside him who was humming a tune, and said slightly tiredly:

“Man, I paid double the price, can you please take me to the orbital elevator quickly and within the legal limit?

My flight is due in more than half an hour, and I'm in a hurry. "

"Oh?"

When he heard that Leon was willing to pay double the price of the car, the driver's eyes suddenly lit up.

Immediately afterwards, the driver pushed the button on the console again, held the steering wheel with both hands, and deliberately lowered his voice and said:

"Mon vieux (little brother)! Sit tight, we'll be at our destination in a minute!"

Oh, by the way, there is a vomit bag in the passenger compartment. If you really can't stand it, vomit immediately, but don't vomit in the car. I just bought it not long ago! "

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Noticing that the driver's expression was serious, Leon was just confused for a moment, then shrugged indifferently.

It seems that you think how fast can it be?

What's more, he is still a genetically enhanced investigator and has never seen any big scenes, so how could he vomit due to "motion sickness"?

Next.

This hover taxi began to shuttle and wander through the crowded waterway within the speed limit stipulated by the law.

The drones patrolling nearby noticed that the taxi Lyon was riding seemed to be driving dangerously, and immediately swarmed over.

However, the French driver is extremely skilled in driving.

Or seize the opportunity to complete overtaking, or complete merging, turning and other actions without affecting the navigation of other vehicles.

? ? ?

This time, the unmanned patrol aircraft controlled by a stupid AI almost went down.

Because the taxi Lyon took seemed to be driving dangerously, but in fact it did not affect traffic safety.

finally.

Within ten minutes, the French driver drove the taxi and parked it in the parking lot on the north side of the orbital elevator.

When the unmanned patrol aircraft saw that the taxis had stopped, they all left and continued their usual patrol missions.

As for Lyon

"Walk slowly, Mon vieux!"

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Leon, who got out of the car, waved to the driver with a slightly pale face.

"Hahaha! You are the first one among all the passengers who are in a hurry to not vomit! That's amazing. I wish you a happy journey! Mon vieux!"

Seeing that Lyon was fine, the driver closed the door and controlled the taxi to take off again.

"call"

After the taxi disappeared into the airway, Leon finally took a breath, shook his dizzy head, put on his backpack, and walked towards the lobby of the orbital elevator.

He obviously didn't expect that just taking a taxi on Mars would remind him of the scene during his first mission.

At that time, he was still a rookie who had just completed training at the Kenyan base.

When I parachuted into Congo for a practical assessment, I also met a French driver.

Do the French drive so aggressively?

He has undergone genetic modification, and his various qualities are far beyond those of ordinary people, and he almost vomited.

"My whole life, forget it."

Leon sighed and stopped worrying about his various experiences.

Immediately afterwards.

Lyon completed the identity verification and usual security checks and took the orbital elevator straight to the space station.

At the last moment, he successfully entered the Kruña, which was about to leave the port of call.

——

In the cabin on the middle level of the hull.

"Sir, please show your electronic boarding pass."

A female flight attendant with a very standard figure and appearance and a professional smile asked Leon, who had just boarded the ship.

"good."

Hearing this, Leon immediately took out the identity card that looked like a transparent card, stretched out his hand and handed it to the other party.

The flight attendant took the magnetic card and used disposable contact holographic glasses to scan and verify that the information on the magnetic card was correct. She handed it back to Leon and smiled again:

"Welcome aboard this flight, Mr. Kennedy, please follow me."

"okay."

Leon took back the magnetic card and followed the flight attendant to the business class cabin with its own private room.

Wait until the flight attendant leaves and the cabin door closes.

Leon put his backpack directly on the table. He also lay directly on the sofa-like seat and looked at the sealed porthole on the left hand side.

Seeing that the mechanical arm responsible for stabilizing the Krunia was loosened, and he felt that the Krunia was slowly leaving the docking port, he closed his eyes and took a nap.

For civil flights in the solar system, the total journey from boarding to leaving the port and arriving at the destination is only about forty-five minutes at most.

It is equivalent to the maglev high-speed train, which travels from one city to another.

After all, the popularity of the jump engine has made interstellar travel extremely convenient.

In addition, Atlas controls all flights with jump engines, so in terms of fares, everyone can afford it.

Moreover, Atlas dominates each universe, gradually replacing old-fashioned currency.

Based on Atlas's experience in rebuilding multiple universes, coupled with the existing credit currency system in the "Halo" universe, mankind will fully adopt the latest technology credit coins to replace the old currency system.

If you follow the regular process to change the currency system, you need to go through "conceptual design and development" →

"Construction of Currency Platform"→

"Adjustments to laws and regulations"→

"Economic Transformation and Management" →

"Social and Cultural Promotion" →

"Implementation Assessment and International Response" and other procedures.

However, most residents of various universes have adapted to all aspects of Atlas. Most products related to life, especially electronic products, are produced by Atlas.

Therefore, the steps taken by Atlas to replace old-fashioned currencies are simply shortened.

Just think about "implementation of conversion plan" →

"Conversion of Existing Assets and Cash" →

"Legal and policy support, and the distribution of incentives" etc.

At this stage, Atlas encourages its residents to replace the old-fashioned currencies in their hands with digital credit coins and "paper" credit cash.

Such as offering switching discounts, as well as offering tax breaks or other financial incentives to encourage early adopters.

As for "paper" credit cash, it is cash with a plastic texture and has an exclusive magnetic code.

Together with stupid and smart AI, the possibility of counterfeit currency is directly eliminated.

The denominations are 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 respectively.

In terms of purchasing power, 1 credit coin (cR) is equivalent to 5 US dollars in the main universe.

It is also the responsibility of stupid and smart AI to maintain the balance between different universes to avoid causing chaos.

Therefore, residents of the main universe who want to go to the moon, Mars, or even further planets such as Europa and Titan only need to spend about 60 to 100 credit coins.

This price is almost the same as cross-continental travel on Earth.

Of course, it is simply impossible for Atlas Civil Aviation to earn back the cost of shipbuilding by relying on fares.

Now all flights are operating at a loss for Atlas.

Even terraforming Mars is the same.

The lakes, rivers, and oceans on Mars all come from Europa.

Europa's diameter is less than 3,200 kilometers, but its water content is twice that of Earth.

The planet's outer shell is a giant block of ice with an average thickness of a hundred kilometers, and beneath a hundred kilometers is a liquid ocean.

When the Atlas Engineering Department used the Reaper mothership to arrive at Europa for exploration, they discovered a large number of plankton and "local" organisms in Europa's liquid ocean.

This is also the first time that humans in the main universe have discovered a planet with life other than the earth in the solar system.

After that, the Engineering Department transferred 1/4 of Europa’s liquid water to the surface of Mars.

In conjunction with the atmospheric transformation device, magnetic field activation device, and three pure flowers derived from Sui Yang's spiritual energy built by the Engineering Department, Mars will be transformed continuously.

Successfully transformed Mars into a large colony with a population of over 500 million in just two years.

In addition, the Accra Park has also relocated some of its production lines to the northern hemisphere of Mars, with the intention of turning Mars into a "forging world" for humans in the main universe.

However, Mars in the main universe will still always pay attention to issues such as environmental pollution.

Ensure that Mars colonists can continue to have a good living space.

——

Shortly after.

08:30 Pacific Time.

Krunia has already arrived at the orbiting space station above Mombasa, allowing all passengers to leave the cabin and set foot on the surface of the earth.

As for Lyon, as soon as he took the orbital elevator and returned to the surface, he transferred to the maglev train and rushed to Accra in West Africa.

When he comes to Accra.

The time has reached 11:15.

Lyon hurried to the Accra branch building of Atlas, and used the maglev train for the convenience of the company's internal personnel to go directly to the Imperial Palace where the space gate was located.

Finally.

He finally left the train at 11:45, and almost ran all the way to the designated location.

Lyon shouted in his heart while running:

'It must be Ada Wang! Only a devil like her would put forward such a strict time limit! ! '

Fortunately, under the surface of the Imperial Palace, there are also rail trains for employees to travel.

After all, the area of ​​20,000 square kilometers is comparable to two new Accra cities.

If Lyon really ran, he might not be able to reach his destination for several hours.

11:58.

In the ruins where twelve space gates have been opened;

The scale here has been expanded as the size of the space gate has increased, just like a real underground city.

The command building responsible for dispatching materials and personnel to different universes, the military living area that provides accommodation, training and entertainment for armed units, and the office area for ordinary employees.

Streets, tracks and channels for maglev vehicles are all available.

And Lyon arrived at the eighth space gate leading to the "Halo" universe before 12:00.

"Hoo."

He panted lightly, carrying a backpack on one shoulder, and walked to the assembly area where dozens of people were already standing.

And with a glance, he saw Ada Wang wearing a red cheongsam.

It was her!

Seeing Ada's presence, Lyon directly confirmed his guess.

And when Ada saw the panting Lyon walk into the assembly area, she frivolously raised her left eyebrow and looked at Lyon with an incomprehensible look.

?

This confused Lyon.

Did he offend his immediate superior somewhere?

Otherwise, Ada would not have issued a strict time limit.

"Ah, woman."

Lyon sighed.

Then he walked to Ada's side, glanced at the young people gathered here, and whispered:

"Director Wang, what exactly do you want to do by suddenly interrupting my vacation?"

"I heard that you had a great time on the golden beach of Mars?"

Ada answered irrelevantly.

"Uh, it's okay?"

For some reason, Leon always felt a little guilty.

But then he thought, why should he feel guilty? !

Besides the relationship between him and Ada, there is nothing else, why should he be afraid of each other? !

So Leon straightened his back and continued, "Director Wang, you ruined my vacation."

"Stop complaining."

However, before Leon finished speaking, he was interrupted by Ada, who said in a cold tone:

"We are going to return to the 08 (Halo) universe, but this operation is not a regular reconnaissance or infiltration mission.

We will represent the company to recruit candidates for the Spartan Project on behalf of the Biology Department.

In addition, we will also assess the trainees who perform the same mission to determine whether they can become a qualified investigator."

After speaking, Ada glanced at the newcomers with an average age of about 20 years old.

Among them were David and Lucy who were transferred from the experimental unit, and the shorter Rebecca.