Chapter 295

Chapter 295

Jiang Simiao paused for a moment when he saw the words "Fifth Star Region" on the business card, and quickly replied: "Research Institute, are you here to purchase materials in bulk or for long-term cooperation?"

After handing over the business card, Shi Qingning was stunned for a moment, as if he had not reacted to Jiang Simiao's words.

"For bulk purchases, we look at the quantity here, and we offer discounts for larger quantities." Jiang Simiao had met clients who came to discuss cooperation recently. Seeing that the man in front of him didn't seem to understand the situation, he explained: "Oh, we can also discuss long-term cooperation. We have an internal VIP system here. As long as--"

"He's not here to discuss cooperation with you."

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded behind Shi Qingning, interrupting Jiang Simiao's sales process. Jiang Simiao heard the familiar voice and looked outside. He found that Mr. Qiu and two of his personal guards were standing a few meters away. They seemed to have just arrived. "Mr. Qiu, why are you here?"

Shi Qingning turned around and his eyes met Mr. Qiu's directly.

Mr. Qiu smiled at Jiang Simiao and said, "Excuse me, I just happened to come here for something. Are the others resting?"

"No." Jiang Simiao glanced at Shi Qingning next to him and said to Mr. Qiu, "Isn't it the off-season? Xingtang is traveling with the kids and is not at the base. Mr. Qiu, do you know this person?"

When Shi Qingning heard that no one was at the base, he hesitated for a moment and looked at Jiang Simiao, intending to ask another question.

And Mr. Qiu who was standing behind him seemed to understand his intention and spoke first.

"Xiao Jiang, can you find us a quiet place?" Old Qiu looked at Shi Qingning, "I have something to say to this researcher, and it's best to be quiet."

Jiang Simiao looked back and forth between the two of them. "No problem, let's go to the meeting room.

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This was the first time that Mr. Qiu came to visit KID’s new base after it was completed. He chatted and laughed with Jiang Simiao along the way, and the two discussed the planning of the base.

Shi Qingning followed behind the two of them. He did not participate in the conversation, but his eyes were fixed on various parts of the base. He seemed to be looking at something, and also seemed to be looking at something else through the base. He looked very carefully, and only came to his senses when he arrived at the door of the meeting room.

"This place is indeed bigger than before." Qiu Lao said, "If you need to introduce any new equipment, you can contact me. We also have a lot of useful equipment on the border that can be transferred to you."

"That's great. Xingtang just mentioned this recently." Jiang Simiao glanced at the person behind him with concern, "I'll have our boss contact you later."

Mr. Qiu patted Jiang Simiao on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, go and get busy first."

Jiang Simiao had been up all night and was still sleepy, but he was not stupid. He knew the situation was not simple when he saw it. He brought Mr. Qiu and the researcher into the secret meeting room in KID's new base. No guests had come here since Shen Xingtang set up the meeting room. After leading the two into the meeting room, he made a call to Shen Xingtang who was far away on Tiannv Star.

Only Mr. Qiu and Shi Qingning were left in the meeting room.

Shi Qingning sat down, "I handed you the invitation."

"I know." Old Qiu took out a document and placed it on the table, pushing it to Shi Qingning. "It's very presumptuous. I investigated you before coming here."

After receiving the news from the director of Shuguang Research Institute, Mr. Qiu started investigating Shi Qingning. Shi was a man with the surname Shi, and he had an unclear relationship with Shi Xuejun. For both public and private reasons, Mr. Qiu wanted to investigate the identity of this person. Shi Qingning was a researcher in the fifth star field, and the investigation had to be conducted across star fields. This delayed him for nearly a month before he received the results of the investigation.

However, this investigation revealed that Shi Qingning's resume was very simple.

He didn't lie, the information Mr. Qiu found was more detailed.

When Shi Qingning was born, his parents died in a research accident. He was adopted by a couple named Shi who worked in the research institute. He lived a very good life with his adoptive parents until he was 7 years old. Until 30 years ago, a large-scale pollution riot occurred in the research institute where his adoptive parents worked, and his adoptive parents died. He was then handed over to the Star Alliance Special Orphanage for raising. When he grew up, he worked in the pollution research major. He has no relatives or friends, and has not joined any faction of the Fifth Star Domain Research Institute. He has been doing pollution research all the time.

During this period, he was sent to the Dawn Galaxy because of the "Blue Heart", and later he voluntarily applied to join the Kronos research team.

"When you didn't agree to see me, I heard from my friends in the Fifth Star Region that someone was investigating me. I knew it was you." Shi Qingning looked at the information without any emotion. "Since you have found this, you should have found something else, right?"

Elder Qiu said, "The data from the research institute 30 years ago is almost all destroyed. It took me some time to look up your adoptive parents. Finally, I asked someone to find the data from the border research institute 30 years ago in the sealed archives in the Fifth Star Region. Your adoptive parents' surname is Shi. Before they adopted you, they had a girl named Shi Qingxue. The data shows that she died in an accident 30 years ago, and the files were deleted."

Shi Qingning said: "Her name in the file is Shi Qingxue, but my adoptive parents often call her Xuejun. You should have heard of the name Shi Xuejun."

"I know." said Mr. Qiu.

Old Mrs. Qiu was familiar with the name Shi Xuejun. She was one of her favorite disciples, who died of a genetic disease caused by genetic infection after the Kolya accident 20 years ago. But the Star Alliance is so large that it is not uncommon for people to have the same name and surname. Old Qiu only found a blurry photo in the archives. The Shi couple protected this little daughter very well. It was Shi Xuejun in her youth. Even after 20 years, Old Qiu could still see some of his adult disciple's appearance from the blurry image.

After his beloved disciple Shi Xuejun died, he tried to find her other relatives, but found nothing. Unexpectedly, he would see some traces of his beloved disciple's past in such a sealed file.

"Shi Xuejun is my adopted sister. She was 15 when I was 7." Shi Qingning flipped through the information. He had read it too many times and knew how Mr. Qiu found it. "The last time we met was 30 years ago when an accident occurred at the research institute. The rescue team did not find her body and ruled her dead. Her personal file was deleted."

After the accident at the institute 30 years ago, a large number of researchers at the core research site died.

Shi Qingning recalled some past events through this file. He remembered that when the accident happened, Shi Xuejun was sick with a fever, and he and his sister were in the same room. When the alarm in the research institute sounded, his sister, who was still sick, got up and packed up all the research materials in the room, took the young him to a safe place, and handed him over to the border troops who came to support her, and then there was no news from them.

Some people said that Shi Xuejun died when she returned to look for someone, but he remembered that his sister was not heading towards the research institute at that time, and before leaving, she specifically told him not to say anything or ask anything... He never received any news from Shi Xuejun afterwards.

"Mr. Qiu, have you heard about the reform incident at the Third Research Institute of the Fifth Star Domain a few years ago?" Shi Qingning said.

When Mr. Qiu heard this, he frowned slightly. He had heard about this. Five years ago, the Third Research Institute of the Fifth Star Region was exposed to have used pollutants for illegal biological research and had done many inhumane things, even inducing special viral gene infections.

After this incident was exposed, other research institutes of the Star Alliance stood up and demanded that the Star Alliance handle the case impartially. In the end, 475 pieces of criminal evidence were listed, and 748 people were involved in the case. This incident had a great impact in the academic community. When Mr. Qiu heard about it, he also knew that all the evidence was submitted by anonymous letters of complaint from multiple researchers.

"Does this matter have anything to do with you?" asked Mr. Qiu.

"The director of the Third Research Institute was the head of a special project at the Border Research Institute 30 years ago."

Shi Qingning said: "My adoptive parents were once researchers under him."

"When I grew up and investigated the accident 30 years ago, I found that I could not find the research project my adoptive parents were working on at the institute. It seemed that all the files had been deleted. It was not until I graduated and was doing an internship at the third institute that I found evidence of the director's crime." Shi Qingning continued, "I don't look the same as I did when I was young, so he couldn't recognize me, but I recognized him. Compared with 30 years ago, his institute's project was just a different skin, and he was conducting illegal research under the guise of a legitimate research."

"Is the accident 30 years ago related to him?" asked Mr. Qiu.

Shi Qingning did not reply with certainty: "I don't know, but what I do know is that 30 years ago they imported a large amount of Class A or Class B pollutants from the border. On the surface, they were conducting normal pollutant research, but in fact they were extracting pollutant genes and stimulating genes. The core issue back then was because the pollutants were out of control."

Hearing this, Mr. Qiu said calmly: "Why did you tell me?

"I looked up some information about the Kolya accident in the Dawn Galaxy and read a lot of reports. I haven't been in Dawn for a long time, but from what I know, you are a good person. And there's no need to hide these things. That person and his team have been imprisoned, and the Third Research Institute has been reshuffled." Shi Qingning said, "I came to the Dawn Galaxy for a normal business trip, but I never gave up looking for her."

Until he saw a boy with eyes very similar to Shi Xuejun in the publicity column of the Dawn Galaxy Mecha Alliance. At first he thought he was just a young man with similar eyes. It was not until he learned from the director of the institute that there was a researcher named Shi Xuejun in the Dawn Galaxy who was the favorite disciple of Mr. Qiu, and that Mr. Qiu had a good relationship with this young mecha master.

Shi Qingning had limited memories of his childhood, and he once thought that Shi Xuejun was dead.

It was not until some past events were revealed that he suspected that the reason why Shi Xuejun faked her death and left was probably related to the director of the Third Institute. All the research materials of the Third Institute were destroyed, and the copy that Shi Xuejun took away might be the only one. If the two siblings had that copy in their hands at the time, they would have been holding a catastrophe.

There are hundreds of people named Shi Xuejun or Shi Qingxue in the researcher files, distributed throughout the Star Alliance, and the authors' names have also appeared in various research papers. Shi Qingning found a manuscript that was suspected to be written by Shi Xuejun, a personal researcher, among a number of papers.

He had been to the First Star Region, but he didn't expect that Shi Xuejun would run to a small place like the Dawn Galaxy.

It is remote, backward, and on the border of the First Star Region. If it weren't for the Blue Heart, Shi Qingning might never have the chance to come to this place in his life.

Shi Qingning said: "The incident at the Third Research Institute was a big deal, and everyone in the Star Alliance knew about it. I thought that after this incident was exposed, she might come out to find me or contact me, but she didn't."

"She passed away 20 years ago." Mr. Qiu looked at the information on the table. Shi Qingning told the truth. Many details matched his investigation. As a researcher, it would be better for her to do large-scale research projects, but Shi Qingning did not do so. Instead, she always looked for opportunities to go out for exchanges and study. "She never told me this."

If it concerns the Third Research Institute, Shi Xuejun, who is alone, really cannot reveal more.

Even though she was her teacher, Shi Xuejun did not deliver any information.

Mr. Qiu received the memory device submitted by Ying Chenlin some time ago, and has asked his family team to try to decode it. The accident in Koria in the Dawn Galaxy was a big deal. Although it was not known to the entire Star Alliance, given the status of the Third Institute in the Fifth Star Field, the director of the Third Institute was also involved in the overall investigation after the accident.

If this thing was left by Ying Songshan to Ying Chenlin, then he could guess why Ying Songshan left for such a long time many years ago, hiding his identity and never contacting the border army... If Shi Xuejun gave that information to Ying Songshan, given the character of an old friend, he would most likely continue to investigate on behalf of Shi Xuejun.

Qiu Lao asked: "Where is Kronos?"

Shi Qingning heard Kronos pause and think for a moment before answering, "The cause of the pollution riot was also very strange. The scale was too large. Kronos, I habitually compare samples from 30 years ago. As you know, I have been investigating the accident 30 years ago. After the incident at the Third Research Institute was exposed, I have a lot of information in my hands."

"According to the current situation, it is very likely that Kronos has appeared in the Fifth Star Region Border Research Institute. Illegal research is one reason, and the core reason is that Kronos drove pollutants." Shi Qingning opened a part of the information he had investigated and handed it to Elder Qiu. "I came to you for another reason, in addition to my sister's matter, I want to show you this. You are knowledgeable in pollutant research. Kronos's evolutionary path is very strange. I haven't submitted this information to the Star Alliance yet, and there are some doubts."

Elder Qiu saved Shi Qingning's information. When he saw that the other party's peripheral vision was outside the meeting room, he put away the information on the table and said casually, "I heard from your team leader that you took a week off. Did you come to Sirius specifically to look for someone?"

Shi Qingning paused. He had been collecting information about Ying Chenlin during this period. He did not dare to disturb the child rashly. It was only when he heard that the seminar he attended was over that he asked for leave to come and meet him. He wanted to confirm whether the other party was related to Shi Xuejun.

He heard Mr. Qiu say, "I was impulsive."

"I was the same as you when I first met that kid." Old Qiu went on to say, "That kid has no relatives anymore. He is a kid who has only come here in recent years. He didn't live here before, and his place was even smaller. The training room and the conference room were squeezed together, and the sleeping room was only half the size of this conference room."

"You've read his profile, so you should have seen his hands." Elder Qiu said, "It's a genetic disease. The child is stubborn. Once the diagnosis was confirmed, he ran to get surgery. He signed the amputation himself."

Shi Qingning didn't say anything and listened carefully to what Mr. Qiu said.

"I'm not sure whether the child is willing to see you, and I have no right to interfere in this matter." Elder Qiu stood up with the help of crutches. "The child's parents are now in this base. If you want to see him, you have to get their consent, not mine."

Shi Qingning was stunned, and saw Mr. Qiu shouting outside, "Xiao Jiang, don't wait over there."

Standing outside the door

Jiang Simiao and Qiu Lao's two personal soldiers looked at each other, smiled awkwardly, and had to open the door and go in: "I just want to ask if you two are short of tea, would you like some?"

Mr. Qiu: "I heard from Xiao Lu that your tea is good."

Jiang Simiao: “…”

After Colonel Lu returned, he promoted their tea several times. That was the old tea passed down from Shen Xingtang's family, and they would not let people drink it without money.

Elder Qiu introduced Jiang Simiao, "This is Shi Qingning, a researcher at the First Research Institute of the Fifth Star Region. He has participated in two well-known projects and is an expert in the research of pollutants and pollutant energy crystals. This is Jiang Simiao, the head coach of the KID base."

"Hello." Shi Qingning extended his hand politely.

"Hello, hello." Jiang Simiao looked at Shi Qingning for a while and found that this man looked very young. He had an alien appearance but used an ancient Chinese name. "Oh, by the way, how long will Mr. Qiu stay in Sirius this time? I just talked to Xingtang on the phone. She told you to stay a little longer and she will be back soon."

"Aren't you going on a trip?" Mr. Qiu asked, "Why don't you stay for a while?"

If they stayed a little longer, their KID's mecha pilot would probably go crazy and die in the deep mountains and forests. The original plan was to go out for a half-month travel and training, but Shen Xingtang changed his mind at the last minute and took KID and a group of people to the mountains with the master of the Lin Family Martial Arts School. They also brought a medical cabin to the mountains for safety reasons.

As soon as he logged into KID's internal group chat, he saw Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao's remarks that life was worse than death. It has been a month now. If it weren't for the new information from the Star Alliance Tournament and some weapons problems in the maintenance room that Ying Chenlin said he would come back to check himself, that group of people would probably have to be kept in the mountains by Shen Xingtang for another half a month.

Just now when Jiang Simiao called, he heard that the training was over and they were packing up to return home.

Shen Xingtang seemed to know that Mr. Qiu was coming, and after knowing that Mr. Qiu was coming, he said something specifically.

"Hey, isn't the Star Alliance Tournament about to start?" Jiang Simiao began to have a headache when he mentioned the Star Alliance Tournament. The other mecha bases were all ready except for the east wind, but they were not ready at all. The weapons were still in the final testing stage and were constantly being revised. "I'm so busy. Xingtang said you told her in advance. Is there something wrong?"

Old Qiu said, "It's about Kronos. I heard that you still have some left in your warehouse. Come over and discuss business with her."

When Shi Qingning heard Kronos, he looked at Mr. Qiu in surprise. He thought that Mr. Qiu came here because he had asked for leave.

Jiang Simiao knew it was a gift of money. It was so nice to do business with the Shuguang Border Army. "That's easy. Why don't you stay in the base for the next two days? Our accommodation area is spacious. It's just right for her to wait here. I'll have someone prepare four rooms."

"Would you like to come and see?"

Shi Qingning looked at Mr. Qiu, who was walking in front of him with a crutch. "Your current direct supervisor is Lao Yang, right? You have nothing else to do if you take a week off. You are an expert in selecting pollutant materials, so Lao Yang and I will temporarily transfer you to help. I am not helping you. Can you see someone and wait for Shen Xingtang to come back? You can tell her in person that if the child doesn't want to see you, you can leave on your own."

"Thank you." Shi Qingning said seriously.

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It was three days later when KID and his group came back. They looked so rough when they left the airport that no one could recognize them walking on the street. Shen Xingtang was too lazy to drive the hovercraft, so the group squeezed into the hovercraft to go home. When they got home, they were carrying large and small bags, and everyone was carrying weapons given by Lin Yao's father as a gift. He told them to keep in touch when they returned to the base, conduct remote training every day, and take video feedback.

When Jiang Simiao opened the door and saw the people, he almost didn't recognize them. They looked like savages from the mountains. They were not wearing combat boots, but simple cloth shoes. The maintenance technicians from the base also ran out. Everyone surrounded KID's mecha technician as if they were watching a group of monkeys coming back from the mountains.

"You guys—" Jiang Simiao asked, "How did you become like this? Go lie down in the repair room in the training room."

Ji Qingfeng threw him down, tears almost coming out: "It feels like home, I'm finally home."

Jiang Simiao's white T-shirt turned black and gray, and he didn't know who had rubbed it against him for a while, so he rushed a group of people to take a shower and change clothes.

Ying Chenlin followed You Su, pushing the suitcase. He felt fine. He felt much better after a good sleep on the spaceship. As soon as he returned to the dormitory and took a shower, he couldn't wait to rush to the maintenance room with the manuscript on his computer. When You Su went to look for someone after taking a shower, he saw that there was only an empty room left. He didn't even have time to pack his suitcase, and all his dirty clothes were in the clothes basket.

Before Ying Chenlin could enter the maintenance room, he was taken away by Dr. Eric for a physical examination. He had the chance to enter the maintenance room only after the examination.

The other people in the maintenance room were still working hard. The mecha had been basically repaired, and the forging of some weapons was nearing completion. Ying Chenlin went to the place to inquire where Grandpa Gu was. When he heard from others that Grandpa Gu and Old Qiu had gone to the weapons data room, they seemed to be correcting the core data of a weapon.

Ying Chenlin originally planned to go over and say hello, but before he even reached the weapons data room, Gu Xiaotian came over with the information, "Brother Lin, you said before that you would keep these energy crystals for your return. Do you want to go over and take a look now or what?"

Gu Xiaotian gave Ying Chenlin a list of energy crystals that were contaminated in the Slarede ice storage. KID had brought back a large amount of supplies at the time, including quite a few energy crystals. After they came back, Shen Xingtang sent all of them to the [Qiusuo] agency for energy crystal identification, hoping to see if he could find some useful energy crystals from them.

But after all, these are border pollutants, and most of them are unseen pollutants and are not recorded in the database.

Only a small number of supernatural crystals can be found out about their functions, but supernatural crystals with special supernatural powers are rare. There is also a part of supernatural crystals that are being sought and determined to be valuable. Among them, there are two supernatural crystals with particularly high attribute purity but unknown supernatural powers... Ying Chenlin heard about it on Tiannv Star, and when he heard Gu Xiaotian talking about it, he wanted to go in and take a look at the situation of the supernatural crystals.

The supernatural crystals in the Slared Ice Mound are rare, and leaving them to KID is an unknown treasure trove.

Some good supernatural crystals can be picked out, and if there is a chance in the future, you can go to the Xingxiu Club for identification.

When Ying Chenlin followed Gu Xiaotian over, he saw some already screened special energy crystals, which were listed one by one and put into a special storage warehouse. Gu Xiaotian had other things to do, so he explained the classification to Ying Chenlin and left. Ying Chenlin found the batch of supernatural crystals that were sent for identification, and found the two high-purity supernatural crystals that were placed separately.

These two supernatural crystals, one has dual attributes of water and wood, and the other has fire attribute.

The colors of the two supernatural crystals were very pure, and the concentration and hue of the colors were very similar to those high-strength supernatural crystals that Ying Chenlin had seen. With his eyes for judging supernatural crystals, he knew that the supernatural powers of these two supernatural crystals were definitely not bad.

But the difficulty lies in the fact that the powers of these two supernatural crystals are unknown. It is like having two treasures in your hands but not knowing how to use them. It would probably take a long time for the Xingxiu Association to do so. Shen Xingtang has already been contacting an agency to identify special energy crystals, trying to find an agency that can identify special energy crystals like the Xingxiu Association.

Ying Chenlin took out the fire-attributed energy crystal from the storage compartment and tried to test it with his mental power.

When he input his mental power, the energy crystal slightly floated up, and under the stimulation of Ying Chenlin's mental power, it emitted a strange reaction, sometimes high and sometimes low. Lian Yuan felt the energy of this energy crystal, which showed that its energy reserve was not low.

"What's the difference with the Immortal Fire?" Ying Chenlin asked.

Yuan: "It's a little weaker than the Undying Fire, but the fire attribute is very active."

The appraisal report provided by Qiusuo said that these two supernatural crystals tend to be offensive supernatural crystals.

Ying Chenlin tried for a long time and decided to go find You Su to try, and ask Theo to give some feedback to see if he could deduce some of the functions of the energy crystal to narrow down the scope. Just as he was withdrawing his mental strength, he suddenly heard footsteps getting closer.

Ying Chenlin heard footsteps and thought it was another KID repairman. When he looked to the other side of the shelf, he saw a man in a white coat.

The man was holding a box in his hand and was counting other energy crystals. Inside were all defective energy crystals that KID couldn't use. I heard that they were defective goods that he was going to sell to Mr. Qiu.

As if hearing a voice, the man raised his head and looked in his direction. When his eyes met his, there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.

He saw the energy crystal floating in Ying Chenlin's hand and noticed his movements.

The man said, "Don't rush in recklessly. Try to use your mental power to go around it and stimulate it from the outside."

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