Chapter 276: Doing Menial Jobs Is Not Acceptable

Life on Renault's side was excessively comfortable...

So comfortable that... once seated in the dining room of Renault's house, one simply didn't want to get up!

If this continued, Gentiane feared she wouldn't be able to endure Griffin's working conditions any longer.

Although there was a training device to help her stay in shape, she couldn't spend all day in there, especially since Renault had already mentioned that prolonged use of the training device by humans could easily lead to neural fatigue.

Over time, it might even be influenced by the experiences in the virtual reality.

Therefore, most of her time during the day was spent wandering around the dormitory building.

As the commander of Griffin, Gentiane naturally didn't have to go out and cause trouble like the human-like patrols on Renault's side.

All she could do was occasionally go to the farm to see the fresh vegetables or go to the breeding farm to see the animals. Otherwise, she could just hang out in the dining room and play with the cats.

In just a week, when Gentiane looked in the mirror, she noticed that her expression had softened considerably compared to before, and she didn't even feel it herself!

This couldn't go on! If she stayed like this, she would be ruined!

She was the commander of Griffin! Not some useless person who could only laze around at home waiting to die!

So when a week had just passed and Gentiane didn't receive the promised helicopter from Helianthus, she went directly to Renault, who was laying wires and lighting equipment at the construction site below, and asked him if he could help contact Helian to ask when she could return.

Coming out of the underground construction site, Gentiane went directly to M1911 and started up the Griffin communicator that hadn't been used for a long time.

As the communicator connected, Helian, who hadn't been seen for a week, appeared in front of Gentiane again.

"Agent Helian, when can I withdraw from here and return to Griffin?" Without waiting for Helian to speak, Gentiane eagerly asked.

And Helian, perhaps also busy, looked stunned when she saw Gentiane, "Gentiane? Why haven't you come back yet?"

Upon hearing this, Gentiane couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved.

Why is Helian asking her?

The Griffin helicopter never came to pick her up, so how could she leave?

"There hasn't been a helicopter to pick me up at all..." Gentiane complained full of grievances, thinking about her three guys who had already bonded with Renault's family, couldn't help but massage her temples with a headache.

"Wait a moment, let me check." Hearing Gentiane's words, Helian also felt a pang of guilt in her heart.

She thought Gentiane would come back today and be sent smoothly, but this woman was still over at Renault's place...

Flipping through the files on her desk, Helian, after seeing a dispatch order for a helicopter, also had an extremely headache.

The boss temporarily sent the helicopter away, which she hadn't noticed before, after all, it wasn't a very common phenomenon for the boss to use a helicopter without prior agreement...

"Sorry, you might not be able to come back now, but if the helicopter on Renault's side is free... can it..."

"What? What's going on again? If there's something, you better say it beforehand. I won't make a wasted trip for nothing, even if you reimburse the fuel." Suddenly speaking up, Renault startled Gentiane, who hadn't heard when Renault had come up behind her!

"This..."

Hearing Renault say this, Helian also frowned with distress.

Griffin didn't have extra resources, and the funds on hand were barely enough to replenish the damaged T-Dolls. If the higher-ups were willing to allocate more money, it would be fine, but now she wished she could split one dollar into two to spend, Griffin's financial reserves were clearly insufficient to hire Renault as a transportation worker.

Moreover, from Renault's location, flying Gentiane directly to her jurisdiction and then flying back from Gentiane's jurisdiction... the fuel consumption on this route alone was not small. Nowadays, aviation fuel was scarce. After all, aviation fuel was rarely used.

Even wealthy people with their own private helicopters wouldn't casually fly around. Because there was a good chance of encountering robbery on the way, and even after the helicopter flew out, it wasn't easy to refuel in any city in the green zone and the white zone.

Many oil-producing areas had already been polluted by Collapse Radiation and the crude oil production was not as high as before. The aviation fuel used by Griffin was purchased at a high price, and every time a helicopter was mobilized, it had to go through multiple procedures for approval.

The last time she sent Gentiane over, it was purely on the way, and the distance wasn't far, but this time was different...

Flying from headquarters to Renault's stronghold, and then flying to Gentiane's jurisdiction... the round-trip distance alone was enough for them to fly several times as far as they did last time.

Such a long distance, coupled with the currently expensive aviation fuel prices... unless the boss nodded, otherwise she couldn't expect to take out a part of the money from the headquarters funds to fill this gap...

Wait a minute!? If she remembered correctly, there seemed to be quite a few factories in the jurisdiction where Gentiane was about to take office?

After another rustling of flipping through the files, Helian narrowed her eyes and carefully examined the files detailing the specific conditions of the jurisdiction. A few minutes later, Helian breathed a sigh of relief.

"Renault, you mentioned before that you wanted to find some metal materials, right?"

"What? Are there any in the area she's going to?" Hearing Helian's words, Renault also grinned.

This news was good news for him. The metal materials in the warehouse before were used to make the bodies of the T-Dolls, as well as various miscellaneous items such as manufacturing isolation channels, etc.

Although there were still plenty of materials left, they were clearly not enough for his requirements, and he was still lacking a lot of key materials. If he could gather them all in one trip this time, it would be a great thing.

The problem of aviation fuel consumption wasn't that urgent for him at the moment. There was quite a bit in the oil depot at the airport in the northern part of the city, enough for him to fly dozens of round trips.

Of course, having a lot of fuel didn't mean he could do odd jobs for free, compensation was still necessary.

"That's right, but when the owners of those factories left, they didn't clearly record the quantity of materials they left behind in that jurisdiction, so it's a bit uncertain how much we can find."

"That doesn't matter, as long as there's a clear direction, that's enough."

Whatever amount they could find, going to those uninhabited areas to scavenge, although it would cost a lot of aviation fuel, the cost would still be cheaper than buying directly from those shady merchants!

Yes, it was those merchants Renault had rescued at the weapons exhibition venue before.

Renault had already asked for prices, those guys, each and every one of them kept saying they would definitely give a discounted price, but in the end, they didn't give any discounts at all.

A bunch of stingy businessmen!