"Let's hope that Renault guy won't dock us for this," AR15 sighed helplessly, looking at the patch of injuries on M16's body. Though not deep, they were enough to damage the bionic skin.
Currently, the household lacked only one thing: the basic material for doll bionic skin. Even without missions, the dolls would inevitably get some bumps and bruises. Moreover, this material wasn't cheap and there wasn't a stable supply channel.
Therefore, the stock of this material at home was always hovering near the warning line. If too many dolls got injured one day, there might not be enough material...
And today, it was probably about to run out...
"It's not so much a deduction, but it's possible to send a bill to Griffin's side," said Scarecrow, who had already returned ahead of the others. She started repairing the two Rippers' battered calves.
Luckily, the Rippers hadn't changed their bodies yet and were still using Sangvis's native parts for their calves, which were all metal and didn't require bionic skin.
"Uh, a bill? Well, Griffin reimbursing for damage caused on the mission sounds reasonable," M16 scratched her head, watching as SOP2 gathered the leftover repair materials from several pods and poured them into one.
"It's reasonable, but it's not much money even if you send out a bill." Although the bionic materials for dolls were expensive, they weren't excessively so. When it was said that the price wasn't cheap, it was in the context of Renault buying them in large quantities.
If only one or two dolls used up the materials, it would probably cost twenty or thirty thousand dollars.
Of course, this was the money Renault spent purchasing it, not the cost to IOP when they made the doll. After all, they had their own factories to produce this material.
Hearing Scarecrow, M16 shrugged. She wasn't embarrassed; after all, Renault's family was big. It shouldn't be too difficult for him to provide this material, right?
"Speaking of which, where is Commander Renault? Wasn't he still outside just now?" Before, when Scarecrow and Renault went out, they went out together. Now only Scarecrow came back.
"He went to eat. CF05 dragged Renault over to their side to eat hot pot." Thinking of CF05's special hot pot, Scarecrow felt the corners of her mouth twitch. The memory of the first time she tasted that spicy hot pot was still fresh in her mind.
"Ohhh," M16 stopped asking questions. SOP2 had already prepared the repair pod and was just waiting for her to go in and fix it.
"Sister 16! Hurry up! It'll be done in ten minutes!"
As SOP2 pushed M16 into the repair pod, M4 cautiously inquired with AR15 about her recent situation since coming to Renault's side. She felt that AR15 seemed a bit different now...
But she couldn't quite pinpoint what was different.
"AR15, are you usually busy over here?" M4 asked in a small voice, noticing the relaxed AR15 beside her.
This seemed like the first time she saw AR15 with such a soft expression. In the past, AR15 always had a stern look even when not on missions.
"Busy? We aren't busy at all. Actually, I'm quite free. Usually, there's nothing to do. If I get bored, I go to the training room to 'train' with G11, or help M1 Garand or G36 with something."
As for the farm and vertical farm? Those two areas aren't very busy. When they are, just find a few Rippers to help out. The intelligence of the Sangvis dolls on the ship has greatly improved, so they can help with tasks like these.
"Really? What about... missions?"
"Missions? Since I joined Renault's side, I've only had two missions. One of them was rescuing you guys."
"And the other?"
Facing M4's curious gaze, AR15 thought for a moment. Since Renault didn't forbid mentioning the mission, she shrugged, "The other one was retrieving a storage medium from the black zone. It was a commission from Global Everything. I don't know the exact pay, but Renault sent us a good amount of money afterward."
He also picked up several dolls from the Black Zone. Initially, she didn't believe MDR when they said Renault had a knack for finding dolls. But after seeing Renault pick up five dolls from the Black Zone, she had to admit MDR's words made sense.
"Black Zone?"
"Well, not really a black zone, just very close. On the way, we encountered a huge mutant that looked like a water monster..." Talking about the last mission, AR15 seemed to find a topic to discuss, and her words became more frequent.
SOP2, who had sent M16 into the repair pod, also came over. Although she had heard AR15 talk about it before, she still wanted to hear it again. The mention of an octopus-like mutant that looked like a water monster was exciting!
Scarecrow, having finished grooming the two Rippers, watched as they bounced lightly and ran out of the workroom. She then turned to M4.
"If it's about that last mission, MDR convinced the Commander to make a training level based on the action record. You can see the entire mission in the training room, or even take on the challenge yourself."
"Hmm!? MDR does that kind of thing? I'll...," SOP2 immediately wanted to rush to the training room to try the mutant herself.
But before she could take a step, she saw M16 in the repair pod, "Wait! Let's go together when Sister 16 is out!"
"Hey? But..." M4 was still thinking about the mission. If she went to the training room with SOP2, the mission...
Unlike M4, RO635 wasn't anxious about the mission. Instead, she visited Renault's workshop. After looking around, she was attracted by a large pile of Neural Cores stacked in boxes.
"What are these?"
The Neural Cores, both large and small, were stacked in an inconspicuous box. If she hadn't recognized their appearance, RO635 would have thought these were ordinary toys.
"They're used Neural Cores swapped out by the dolls on the ship."
"Replaced? Can Neural Cores be replaced?"
She had only heard about backing up a doll's neural data to the Neural Cloud Map. Uploading neural cloud required permissions, and Renault's side didn't seem to have that condition, right?