AutoTerra: Operating Systems

Chapter 9: The Gardin

Along the hallway Astan and Arni walked while chatting lightly about various things. Actually, things like this are not uncommon. Astan is a friend of Suda and very familiar with the brother of this girl, but he never once had a chat this familiar before with Arni.

When Astan visited Suda and Arni's cabin first, Astan only occasionally greeted Arni, it was only replied with a thin smile. Suda said that his sister is shy and rarely friends, the number of friends can still be counted as the least finger.

“Ahaha…. You are different from other guys.” Arni tried to hold back laughter after hearing the various babbles Astan.

With his pedal Astan restores his hair. “From which side, anyway? Bull, yak?”

“Not.”

Instant face instantly flat.

“Hihi…. Usually most of the guys want to look cool, pretentious’an sharp, calm,” said Arni, “If you are even really cute like a mother-mak.”

Instant start giving a confession, “So, Dek Arni. From the nature of me being a bit tilted 360 degrees, I just want to say that what I said was right waiting for the tram was really.”

Arni knitted an eyebrow. “Which one?”

“Yang ghibah with mom-mak. I often hang out with the cafeteria mothers, hang out that way,” replied Astan with a waving hand.

Now Arni's flat face responds to it.

“Not just the same mother, sometimes also like to hang out with the fathers in the cafeteria,” continued Astan, “Sitting casually with one leg raised on a chair, smearing coffee continues to belch, and, sometimes we laugh at our fathers. Aaaahahahaha..!”.

Suddenly Astan laughed out loud as he bent down to hold his lamented belly, and occasionally beat his own thighs as he recalled the jokes of the cafeteria fathers. Arni, who sees him, is only confused by Astan's strange behavior, questioning the man's mental health.

In terms of how funny?!

“Eh, uh! Have you ever heard the jokes of these fathers?” ask Astan suddenly enthusiastic.

Arni shook her head with a sour face. “No, and don't want ta—.”

Astan immediately interjected no matter that Arni did not want to hear his laugh at all.

“For plants in lush Hydroponic Deck..”.

Arni was silent a thousand languages, his feelings were already too sour to hear his continuation.

“We're defecating together! Nyahahahaha..!”.

Once again Astan laughed loudly, even now he was kneeling while banging on the floor until tears of joy flowed from his eyes.

Arni has absolutely no response, pecking in place. He was confused when he saw this weird Astan. In his mind came this question as he recalled the heavenly smile from Suda,

‘Where did my antiques come from like this…? Maybe it's right to think people, this is what happens when a vegetable centong is given life.’

After he finished laughing out loud, Astan immediately stood up straight while wiping away his laughing tears.

“Where? How's it? Cute, no?” ask Astan with a cheerful face.

Arni smiled contrivedly. “Funny, Bang. But the funny thing is mentally to the afterlife.”

Arni hurriedly walked ahead of Astan without caring that the man was looking at her with an innocent look.

“Lho, in terms of where it's not funny?” gumam Astan is confused. “I'm the same father in the cafeteria aja often ngak kok if someone throws jokes like that.”

“Oi, Arni! Wait!”

Astan hurriedly chased after Arni who would soon arrive in front of a gate.

….

“Welcome to the Dek Kru training field.”

The two robots guarding in front of a large gate invited Astan and Arni to enter the place.

Arni seemed to be fascinated by the place. That place is a training field for beginner hunters to practice, raising the rank to the Wood Rankings. This indoor field is a spacious room dominated by ivory white with blue and metal accents.

This area now looks very quiet, boring. There was only a novice hunter like Arni shooting three live wooden puppets that were usually used for training.

“Wah…! Is this a beginner hunter-specific training field?” arni asked enthusiastically, but then began to feel astonished. “But how quiet?”

“Ya, reasonable deserted.” Astan's eyes looked at the corner of the field. “Our Guild is among the most unpopular Guilds in the galaxy. Few people are willing to join our Guild, it is also the residents who live here.”

Sometimes Astan stepped slowly with both hands inserted into the pocket of his pants, still near Arni.

“Guild Thornic, who knows? This Guild of ours is too passive, rarely as active as other Guilds in hunting activities,” Astan explained casually. “No ambition to become the best Hunter Guild. Doing a hunting mission just to make money, survive. Guild and ship are only used as a shelter for the homeless, shelter, survival.”

Astan stopped stepping, turning to Arni. “So, we as hunters in the Thornic Guild can't expect more. The Guild Leader only wants the Guild members and the entire occupants of the Thornic Ship 035 to be safe, he does not want us to engage in competition with other Guilds. And I'm comfortable with a Guild like this.”

It does. During this time the Thornic Guild had never been seen actively competing with other Guilds like the hunter Guilds in general. What the hunters did here was only on a hunting mission or protecting Guild members and fellow occupants of the Thornic Ship 035.

There was no harm in deciding not to incur competition with other Guilds for security reasons. But for some reason, Arni thought that the passivity of this Guild would not even yield any progress.

Supposedly, if they could participate more actively hunting, could compete with other Guilds, then there would be many advantages they could get. For example, money, items, and items for ship equipment and the needs of the residents.

But how else? Such an opinion can only be harbored by an Arni. He could not argue because he realized his position was still a new hunter. Astan who had already six months of joining the Guild alone did not comment of any sort, instead he was grateful for the current situation of the Guild.

“Why bengong aja? Not training, here?”

Arni is shocked, aware of her daydream when Astan reminds her to practice. The black-haired girl shook her head for a moment, trying to shake her mind about the Guild earlier.

As the two began to step into the middle of the field, Astan's fad greeted the only hunter training here.

Arni's whims check data from the hunter through his system.

[Name : Gardin Ananta]

[Gender Type: Male]

[Age: 18 years]

[Profession : Hunter]

[Lift : None]

[Level: 4]

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[Main Weapon: Basic Gun (Grade-D)]

[Additional Weapon: -]

[Supporting Weapon: -]

[General Capability: Summon Type-1]

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[-Strength: 7]

[-Agility: 8]

[Vitality: 6]

[Intelligence: 12]

[-Dexterity: 7]

[ Luck: 5]

The hunter named Gardin stopped shooting the wooden doll, smiling at Astan.

“Nguli, Bang. Yeah, another exercise…. See for yourself, here,” Gardin said.

Both of Gardin's eyes widened, noticing Astan's figure. “You're that level 3 Iron Rank hunter, right? What are you doing here? Exercise too?”

“Yeee…. Where are Iron Rank hunters training in the day again?” Astan pointed at Arni beside him. “This.... again nemenin temen. He just signed up to be a hunter.”

Arni waved her hand with a friendly smile at Gardin. “Hai, Mas.”

“Ooo…. New hunter? Serve his son.” Gardin started wondering, “What's his name, Neng? Meet me, I'm Gardin. I also just signed up to be a hunter.”

“Hilih~ Pake PDKT all nih skin bengkoang,” ledek Astan. “Ei, he's the brother of a mechanical engineer. Until his brother finds out you're anything, so’in petromax, won't be a person again you later.”

Arni chuckles to hear the words of Astan as usual always cherry.

Arni pranks on Astan's arm. “Hihi…. Bang, he just wants to meet. Not wrong, kok.” Arni introduces herself to Gardin. “I Arni. Greetings, yes.”

“Salam know also.” Gardin smiled at the sumringah. “If later ‘dah until Wood Rank, how about we become a Squad?”

“She's already one Squad with me,” between Instant rather sewot.

Gardin was a little stunned to hear that. “Heh…? Yesterday this sweet Arni wants a Squad with horse teeth?”

“Hiiih! Want to take your gelud, yak?!” Astan get ready to take a swing for jotos. “Our level difference is still far away. Want me to make you my darling man?!”

“Waduh?”

Spontan Gardin held his own waist. Horror is also imagined if he suddenly became a human kayang like in horror films.

“I-iya sorry…. I ‘kan just— Ayak! Sift it! Kayak!”

Gardin is upset because a wooden doll is attacking him. Luckily, the young man shot with a gun.

Astan who saw the incident back chirping, “Makanya, focus!”

“You're the one who bothered from earlier!”

“I ‘kan just nyapa!”

“But you've been cheating on me!”

“Udah, udah!” Arni mediates. “This is if you two make a fuss, when do I train?”

“Ya, already. Follow here.”

Astan dragged Arni towards the end of the field. While walking away, Gardin tries to aim at Astan with his gun, but is caught by Astan himself.

“Shoot aja! I'm wearing a Shield! Caught shooting me, I made you a pedal!”

Hurriedly Gardin lowered his weapon in a panic. “Si-who wants to shoot there? I ‘kan want to shoot these wooden dolls!”

Gardin tried to sneeze, even though his wooden doll had lost.

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