Chapter 296

Chapter 296

The two of them were separated by a shelf. When Ying Chenlin heard the other party's voice, he restrained the mental power output of the supernatural crystal a little, controlling his mental power from being absorbed by the special absorption ability of the supernatural crystal. He followed the other party's words and went around the outer layer of the supernatural crystal.

"The mental output cannot be weak, maintain the same output threshold." The man saw the change in Ying Chenlin's hand movements, stared at Ying Chenlin's left hand, and continued: "Like you mecha masters output mental power to control superpower weapons in battle, maintain the same output threshold, move a little to the left, stop, at this position, aim at the same point on the superpower crystal to stimulate."

This output method does not involve a reckless rush, but it consumes more mental energy than a large amount of input. After only a few minutes, Ying Chenlin felt that the mental energy output from his body seemed to disappear in the mutual game with the supernatural crystal. Just when he was about to withdraw his mental energy, the supernatural crystal suspended in his palm actually had an additional reaction. The fire-attributed supernatural crystal seemed to have its internal energy stimulated.

The burning sensation gradually grew in Ying Chenlin's hand, and finally a bit of fire emerged from the energy crystal and rushed towards Ying Chenlin.

The man on the other side of the shelf reacted faster. The moment the fire started, he picked up the tools placed aside in the warehouse and used them to knock the supernatural crystal out of Ying Chenlin's hand. The supernatural crystal was out of Ying Chenlin's control and fell to the ground. The fire coming out of the supernatural crystal disappeared.

When Ying Chenlin came back to his senses, he still felt a burning sensation on the fingertips of his left hand. He had used his mental power to test the supernatural crystal many times, and he had also tried stimulating the outside of the supernatural crystal, but this was the first time he had seen a supernatural crystal react so violently.

He subconsciously looked at the man holding the box of supernatural crystals in one hand, only to see the man pick up an isolation box from the side and turn it upside down to cover the supernatural crystals that fell on the ground.

After Shi Qingning covered the energy crystal with an isolation box, the reaction on the surface of the energy crystal gradually shrank and finally dissipated and recovered, but it still burned a little black mark on the ground. "The energy crystal with fire attribute is too dangerous. You'd better test it in an isolated and protected environment."

He had just isolated the energy reaction on the surface of the energy crystal when he heard a curious voice behind him.

Ying Chenlin's eyes fell on the transparent isolation box and said, "It should be difficult for the supernatural crystal to show supernatural reactions when it is separated from the pollutant."

Shi Qingning paused when he heard this. When he stood up, he saw that the boy had walked up to him. He was wearing a maintenance suit with a small tool bag tied around his waist. His hair was not completely dry and was still wet. He knew that KID was coming back today. He had originally planned to meet KID's boss Shen Xingtang after picking out the supernatural crystals. He didn't expect to meet Ying Chenlin in this place.

Ying Chenlin realized that his question was a bit offensive, so he took the initiative to introduce himself: "Hello, I am the mecha master and maintenance technician of the KID base. My name is Ying Chenlin."

"I know you." Shi Qingning came back to his senses. "My name is Shi Qingning. I am currently a researcher in Mr. Qiu's team, majoring in pollutants and supernatural crystal research."

When Ying Chenlin heard the word "Master", he paused. Before he opened his mouth, Shi Qingning spoke first.

Shi Qingning looked at the energy crystals in the isolation box and patiently answered Ying Chenlin's question: "The mental output is aimed at the core point of the energy crystals. Some energy crystals will instinctively react and use their energy. The purer the energy crystals, the more energy they will use.

The higher the temperature, the more intense the reaction. ”

"The two crystals you picked up are both high-purity energy crystals, which means that when it is the core of the pollutant, its reaction will be more intense, and some of the pollutant's instinctive reactions will be engraved in the energy crystal." Shi Qingning picked up the fire-attributed energy crystal. "Many people think that energy crystals are the heart of the pollutant, but in fact, energy crystals are more appropriately called the brain of the pollutant. Even if the main body dies, the pollutant's brain still retains some instinctive habits."

Ying Chenlin said: "I have used this kind of stimulation before, but the reaction was never as intense as this."

"That's because we haven't found the point." Shi Qingning's finger stopped at a certain point, "For example, the sensitive point of this energy crystal is here. Stimulating this point can stimulate its center."

Ying Chenlin looked at the location where Shi Qingning pointed. To be honest, he couldn't see any difference, but he did stimulate the location according to what Shi Qingning said. "Will this kind of stimulation have obvious supernatural reactions? Then can we know the supernatural power of the supernatural crystal after stimulating it to a certain degree?"

Ying Chenlin had heard You Su talk about the way the Xingxiu Society identified power crystals. Because the Xingxiu Society had machines made using special powers, they could stimulate power crystals and make them show power reactions, thereby determining the power of unknown power crystals.

So, as long as we control the method of stimulating the supernatural crystal, we can determine the supernatural power of the supernatural crystal.

When Shi Qingning heard Ying Chenlin's words, he lowered his eyes slightly, "Do you feel the depletion of your mental energy?"

Ying Chenlin knew the consumption. After just a few minutes of stimulation, he felt that a quarter of his mental power had been drained. "Does stimulation require a lot of mental power?"

Shi Qingning was a little surprised. Ying Chenlin's brain turned quickly. "That's what it means. And we have to find the right position. You can think of it as a free energy point inside the energy crystal. It's very small. Only by stimulating that position can we effectively test it. And the requirements for stimulating that position are very high. It's not that simple. Try another one."

Ying Chenlin used it on another water and wood dual-attribute energy crystal, but this time Shi Qingning pointed out the location to him. When he used his mental power to stimulate it, there was no reaction like the fire energy crystal just now.

Shi Qingning took the water and wood attribute crystal from Ying Chenlin and also released his mental power to touch the crystal. He seemed to be very good at this kind of test. The crystal that had no reaction in Ying Chenlin's hand floated in his hand and signs of wetness appeared on the surface.

Shi Qingning said: "You used S-level mental power to make it emit a little fire source... This is because you have a high affinity for fire-attributed energy crystals. This method of mental power testing can be used, but the success rate is actually only about 34%."

34%, it can only appear after successful stimulation, so the probability of successfully stimulating superpowers through artificial stimulation will be even lower.

Ying Chenlin was a little discouraged when he heard this. It seemed that he had to wait until Shen Xingtang found a professional appraisal organization, or he could look for Mr. Qiu later to see if he could find the appraisal channel of Xingxiu Society.

Noticing Ying Chenlin's expression, Shi Qingning asked, "Do you want to know the abilities of these two energy crystals?"

Ying Chenlin was very sensitive to energy crystals, but he couldn't just say that he felt that these two energy crystals were unusual and wanted to figure them out as soon as possible to see if they could be made into weapons before the Star Alliance game. He simply explained, "Our weapons reserves are not sufficient yet. These are the two better energy crystals in our base, but the identification agency we contacted only told us that they were offensive energy crystals and could not find any energy."

Shi Qingning held the supernatural crystal and said, "The success rate is low, but it's not impossible to try."

There was no one in the maintenance room. When Shen Xingtang arrived there, he did not find Ying Chenlin. Finally, under the guidance of Gu Xiaotian, he found Ying Chenlin in the laboratory borrowed by Mr. Qiu. He and Shi Qingning stayed in the laboratory, and seemed to be doing research on the supernatural crystal.

"Brother Lin met Master Shi who was counting the supernatural crystals in the warehouse. They seemed to be talking about something, so he came here to study the supernatural crystals." Gu Xiaotian said.

"It's okay, Xiaotian, you go and get busy." Shen Xingtang looked at the two people inside. She held a piece of information about Shi Qingning in her hand, and her eyes never left Shi Qingning.

Ying Chenlin and Shi Qingning stayed in the laboratory for a long time until Grandpa Gu asked him for something else. He had to put down the testing work and said, "Teacher Shi, I'm leaving first."

Shi Qingning nodded and watched the boy walking and looking at the computer. His mechanical right hand holding the computer was very flexible.

He kept looking at Ying Chenlin's hand until the automatic door of the laboratory closed and the man disappeared in front of him.

"Teacher?"

Shi Qingning came back to his senses, "What's wrong?"

Another researcher from Qiu's team said, "Boss Shen from KID wants to see you. She said she will wait for you to finish your work."

Shi Qingning put down the work in his hands and said, "I know. I'll be there right away."

Outside the maintenance room, Ying Chenlin hurried back to the maintenance room to solve the problem of weapon parameter data. Gu Lao and Qiu Lao discussed a plan, and Ying Chenlin took over the work as soon as he arrived at the location. He climbed onto the arm of the mecha to calculate the data of the mecha. However, when he just climbed onto the mecha, he saw the man standing at the door of the maintenance room from a distance.

You Su took a shower and changed his clothes. He didn't say a word when he got to the place. He just leaned against the door of the maintenance room and looked inside.

The two men looked at each other, and Ying Chenlin looked away first, then followed Grandpa Gu's instructions to take samples and collect data.

The two elderly people had difficulty walking and could only direct Ying Chenlin's work from below. The other people in the maintenance room were busy with other things, and only Ying Chenlin was busy here, running up and down to get tools.

When Ying Chenlin was about to go down to get the tools, a tool was suddenly thrown up from below. He grabbed the tool and looked down to see You Su standing next to the tool rack.

"Aren't you training?" Mr. Qiu saw You Su coming over.

You Su replied calmly: "Jiang Simiao is reading the information and taking a break for half a day."

With Yousu's help, Ying Chenlin's detection data was much faster.

After working for 3 hours, he finally collected the required data. He handed the data board to Grandpa Gu. The two old men took the data and went to the programming table next to them to study it.

Ying Chenlin's stomach growled.

"Are you hungry?" You Su asked.

Ying Chenlin glanced at the time and realized that it was almost time for dinner.

Ying Chenlin's maintenance suit was covered in engine oil. After he took off his gloves, he found that the gloves had been torn at some point, and his hands were inevitably stained with some oil. He was planning to go somewhere else to clean himself up first, when he turned his head and saw the nutrient solution handed to him.

The nutritional supplement has been opened, and the fragrant smell of honey wafts out from the bottle.

You Su handed the nutrient solution to him and said, "Here."

Ying Chenlin looked at the nutrient solution in You Su's hand, then shifted his gaze to You Su's face without moving.

Seeing that he didn't take it, You Su chuckled and said, "Are you still picky about food?"

Ying Chenlin paused for a moment, lowered his head slightly, and bit the mouth of the nutrient bottle in You Su's hand.

You Su's breathing stagnated when he saw this, and he felt that the other person's eyes were staring at him.

"Chen Lin!" Grandpa Gu shouted from a distance.

Ying Chenlin raised his head slightly, and the liquid in the nutrient solution flowed down the bottle mouth. His Adam's apple moved, and he drank the nutrient solution in one gulp. He handed the empty bottle to him and said, "I'm leaving first."

The boy ran away quickly and headed for the vicinity of Qiu Lao.

You Su held the empty bottle, his eyes dim, and wiped away the honey residue on the bottle mouth with his fingers.

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After spending half a day in the maintenance room, Ying Chenlin went to the meeting room. When he arrived, You Su was already there. ≡

There was an empty seat next to You Su, and Ying Chenlin walked over and sat down, neither of them spoke.

Shen Xingtang and Jiang Simiao were already waiting in the conference room. The virtual screen was displaying information about the Star Alliance Tournament that would be held at the end of this year. The specific time and location of the Star Alliance Tournament had not yet been announced, but the Star Alliance had already issued relevant documents.

When the document came down, Li Jingyan immediately notified Shen Xingtang who was far away in the mountains. If it weren't for this document, Shen Xingtang would not have been able to pull KID and his group out of the mountains so quickly, because the news brought by this document was simply a bolt from the blue for KID now.

The document states the basic combat readiness requirements. After all, it is a battle against the Star Alliance. The mecha bases that can enter the Star Alliance competition basically have the foundation to cope with various competition requirements. This document was issued to give a vaccination to the 50 participating mecha bases in the five major star fields before the competition system was announced. A very important point is that the Star Alliance competition recommends that each mecha carry 4 or more weapons reserves.

The new competition system, the Star Domain Competition of the First Star Domain changes every year, and the Star Alliance Competition changes even more frequently.

The Star Alliance Tournament will focus on the previous competition systems of the five star regions, and will replace various assessment plans based on the Star Alliance's different requirements for mecha pilots each year. In Ying Chenlin's memory, whether it was individual or team battles, the Star Alliance Tournament was the only one among all mecha competitions that could not be predicted in advance using past rules. Just like the individual soldiers that Ying Chenlin knew, some were competitions with complex competition systems, and some were simple and crude points competitions.

"The weapon carrying regulations have been updated?!" Ji Qingfeng saw the information Jiang Simiao had released, "The mecha's weapon box can only hold two weapons! I can't carry this, right?"

"It is recommended to bring it, which means that there may be scenes where multiple weapons are used." Jiang Simiao basically studied the document thoroughly: "You have also seen the Star Domain Competition, right? During the halftime break, it is allowed to repair the mecha and replace weapons, but the First Star Domain's document does not mention the recommendation to let the mecha carry more weapons."

Upon hearing this, You Suo casually said, "The new competition system may not provide enough time for repairs, and the weapons are likely to be damaged."

Ying Chenlin pondered for a moment and said, "It could also be that the competition system is highly variable, allowing the major teams to have greater possibilities for combat readiness adjustments."

"Both of your statements are possible." Jiang Simiao sighed, "For other mecha bases, what they need to think about next is to bring better combat readiness to the battle, while what we need to think about is what combat readiness to bring to the battle."

Huo Yan flipped through the information Jiang Simiao had placed on the table. It contained the arsenal of weapons that KID could currently deploy. They were basically familiar with all the weapons, but the problem was that except for some weapons that were in the later stages of development, they had all been used in the Star Region Tournament or the Star Alliance Tournament. As the star domain champions of the First Star Region, these weapons would definitely be on the research lists of the major teams in the Star Alliance Tournament. "That's it."

Lin Yao also looked through the information: "Oh, I understand. It's the same way I play games. Our hero pool is too shallow. No matter which hero we pick, others can target us."

"It's rare, Yaobao." Ji Qingfeng said in shock, "You can actually use your brain to think."

Lin Yao: "I'm not that stupid!"

Jiang Simiao's expression changed from relief to confusion, and finally he sighed: "But there is no way. After all, our base has only been established in the past two years. You have worked hard, but it is still difficult to narrow the gap in combat readiness with other mecha bases in a short period of time. But now we have to find a way to keep everyone able to carry two new weapons as much as possible."

Other bases may have four new weapons per person, but they can't get four. However, with KID's current foundation, they can barely get two new weapons per person.

Ying Chenlin looked at Jiang Simiao and said, "Have you communicated with Grandpa Gu and the others?"

"I had a meeting with the maintenance department before you came." Jiang Simiao was also worried about this matter. "Originally, we had 8 new weapons in R&D. According to the situation, we could have rushed them out before the Star Alliance Games and let you train. But now we need to add 4 more, confirm the energy crystals, design drafts, R&D assembly, and conduct later tests. Mr. Gu said that we can make them...but it's hard to find suitable energy crystals, and the time is very tight."

"We can have two more energy crystals here, and the two in the Shuguang Resource Library can be put into use." Ying Chenlin handed the information to Jiang Simiao, "I have already handed the design draft to Mr. Gu, so we should be able to have two more."

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After the meeting, Jiang Simiao felt a sense of urgency and felt that time was running out. He hurriedly sent the mecha operators to the training room to touch the simulated mechas and regain the muscle memory of mecha operation as soon as possible.

Shen Xingtang stopped Ying Chenlin and asked him to go to the meeting room, handing him a piece of information.

The information said Shi Qingning, and Ying Chenlin was slightly startled.

"Here is the information for you. You can make your own decision." Shen Xingtang said nothing more. "Tell me if you have any questions."

Ying Chenlin took the information and flipped through a few pages. When he saw a certain word, he was stunned for a moment, "Okay, I understand."

Shen Xingtang knew that Ying Chenlin had his own opinions, so she didn't say much about other things. "I'm going to take care of other things."

While everyone else was busy, Ying Chenlin met with Shi Qingning more often in the past two days.

However, whenever the two met, Shi Qingning always took the initiative to bring up the matter of the supernatural crystal and never mentioned anything else.

When it comes to identifying supernatural crystals, Shi Qingning is indeed a very capable person. The low success rate that Ying Chenlin thought was no problem in front of him. With the other party's assistance, the first thing tested out was the fire-type supernatural crystal. The power of its supernatural power cannot be measured.

However, it was initially discovered that the fire attribute of this supernatural crystal is very special. Its fire attribute gathers and disperses. When it gathers, it has high destructive power. When it disperses, the fire burning effect has strong destructive power. It is a strong attack type supernatural crystal with a little wind attribute.

The two often met in the laboratory. After a long time, Ying Chenlin discovered that Shi Qingning was a man of few words but very knowledgeable.

Especially when it comes to supernatural crystals, there is no need for Ying Chenlin to explain many things in detail. Shi Qingning knew what he wanted to ask.

"You won't tell that kid?" Mr. Qiu saw Shi Qingning working overtime in the laboratory after finishing work every day, "I didn't know you could do this."

"It just happens to be within my major." Shi Qingning sealed up the other results of the supernatural crystal identification. "He may not be able to adapt to me. I think our current relationship is very good. Fortunately, I can help."

Both of them were very busy. Shi Qingning would be called away every time he finished his work in the laboratory. Ying Chenlin was running between the training room and the maintenance room. When he was free, Gu Xiaotian handed him a piece of information.

"Teacher Shi said he wanted to give this to you, but since you were busy, he didn't bother you." Gu Xiaotian said, "He said he had something to do and had to go back to Mingguang Star. He will be back in a few days. Also, this is his contact number. He said you can contact him directly if you have any questions."

Ying Chenlin took the document and his eyes paused slightly. It was the appraisal report of Shuimu's supernatural crystal.

He remembered the information about Shi Qingning that Shen Xingtang had given him, said thank you to Gu Xiaotian, and carefully saved the contact number into the computer.

Let’s ask him when he comes back... Ying Chenlin pinched the memory stick left by his mother around his neck and turned to go into the maintenance room.

On the other side of KID's base, the issue of the energy crystals could be resolved for the time being. Shen Xingtang took the information to discuss with the maintenance engineers in the maintenance department to find a way to shorten the forging time of the weapons. The people in the maintenance department had been with KID for several months and had basically become familiar with KID's weapon assembly under the instruction of Grandpa Gu.

But these are manual jobs after all, and no matter how fast they are done, they can't be done much faster. It is also easy to put the cart before the horse and cause problems in weapon forging.

Shen Xingtang originally wanted to ask Boss Zhou for help, but most of the team under Boss Zhou were in the A-class mecha market, and it was quite difficult and prone to problems for them to assemble mecha weapons loaded with S-class supernatural crystals.

She had no choice but to find a way to recruit an experienced maintenance technician again, but it was not that easy to hire someone temporarily, and after working for several days she still couldn't solve the problem.

Finally, it was Mr. Qiu who learned about this from Grandpa Gu and took the initiative to find Shen Xingtang.

"You want a team, why don't you ask me for help?" Old Qiu said angrily while leaning on his crutches: "You have helped us so much, but you didn't even ask us for help when you made a weapon."

During this period, for the matter of Kronos, Mr. Qiu's team has been staying in the vacant laboratory at the KID base to conduct tests, and will send the useful materials after inventory to the Shuguang Research Institute. It is expected that they will stay at KID for more than half a month. Mr. Qiu had always been embarrassed to trouble Shen Xingtang, but when he heard that Shen Xingtang had something to do and didn't ask him for help, he became angry and anxious, and he found a team to come to Shen Xingtang the next day.

As a result, when Ying Chenlin entered the maintenance room the next day, he saw unfamiliar faces at first glance. The progress had increased so much that he almost couldn't find his position.

"With such a fast speed, it should be Mr. Qiu's team." You Su glanced at them and said, "Don't worry, these are the teams that make heavy weapons. Mecha weapons are very simple for them."

Ying Chenlin became even more nervous when he heard this: "Can we pass the trial?"

You Su: “…I think so.”

Mr. Qiu offered to help and transferred his own team over to help KID build weapons. The progress of the entire maintenance department advanced by leaps and bounds. Shen Xingtang and Jiang Simiao were shocked when they received the progress chart.

"This team that makes heavy weapons must be very expensive, right?" Jiang Simiao asked.

Shen Xingtang shook his hands and said, "I'll discuss this with Mr. Qiu."

The next day, before Shen Xingtang could even speak, Mr. Qiu offered to help for free. His team consisted of new recruits in the border army who were currently on vacation. Although assembling S-class energy crystal weapons was simpler than heavy weapons, it actually took a lot of time and energy. For this group of new recruits, this kind of weapon assembly could just hone their patience and energy, which could not only train the students, but also help Shen Xingtang.

What's more, the current leader of KID Maintenance Department is Mr. Gu, and Ying Chenlin is also there.

The two people who were in charge of the Dawn Parts Innovation are here. If we leave this group of people here, we can still learn something.

After Mr. Qiu said this, Shen Xingtang's psychological burden was reduced.

"If you have students who need patience training in the future, please feel free to contact us, KID." Shen Xingtang changed his expression, "We can also sign a special training contract with the border army team. Maintenance technicians are welcome to come here to hone their skills and study."

When Mr. Qiu heard this, he smiled and stroked his beard: "Okay, I'll bring my students to do odd jobs for you if I have nothing else to do."

The two of them walked towards the maintenance room while talking, leaving KID and the others to watch Shen Xingtang's full plan.

Ji Qingfeng: "Sister Tang is planning to hire a temporary worker."

"Go train, why are you doing business, Master Guan?" Jiang Simiao patted Ji Qingfeng on the back of his head. "Is it easy to operate? The speed at which you guys are burning money, all the bonuses have been put into making weapons."

Other bases all rely on mecha divisions to support the bases, while they rely on online stores to support the bases and mecha divisions. Since their income is not enough to make ends meet, they have to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

The author has something to say:

I will write an extra chapter for you guys tomorrow.

I have been organizing the outline of the Star Alliance Tournament these two days. The competition is about to start, and it will probably start tomorrow or the day after tomorrow!

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