Chapter 425 Later (End)

When Jiang Yu arrived at Sirius, he still felt uncomfortable for a long time.

Not long ago, the KID Base, the fighter jet base of the First Regiment of Dawn, announced that it would open a single-soldier division. When the news spread, it caused an uproar in the First Star Region.

The KID Mecha Base is currently ranked top 1 in the Star Alliance in terms of team battle performance. Its reputation over the years has spread throughout the Star Alliance. Countless team battle mecha divisions want to enter the KID base but have been unable to do so. It was only two years ago when the KID base first recruited new members and established the second team that fresh blood was gradually absorbed.

As a solo mecha master, Jiang Yu doesn't pay much attention to group battles, but he watches KID's competitions every year. As a grassroots base, it almost went bankrupt five years ago when the base management ran away, but now it has won three consecutive championships in the Star Alliance team competition, bringing the Dawn team competition to the Star Alliance level in one fell swoop.

To achieve this level, in addition to the good performance of the mecha pilots, it is also inseparable from the operation of the KID mecha base itself.

So when KID Base said it wanted to recruit new individual mecha divisions, he submitted his application without hesitation.

Many people do not understand Jiang Yu's actions. His former club was the top individual base of Dawn. Giving up the original contract and running to a group battle base undoubtedly meant giving up several years of hard work. But Jiang Yu himself knew that although his grades seemed to be stable at a high level, they had actually entered a bottleneck period and remained where they were.

In recent years, he has watched many games of sink. In the first year of the competition, sink switched to a medical mecha technician, but later on, his playing style became freer in more and more games, and he cooperated with KID mecha technicians to come up with various special tactics. He has played medical stealth and medical tanks. As a result, the playing styles of several chief mecha technicians of KID became unpredictable. The high degree of freedom of play brought a major reshuffle to the team competition environment. The overall environment triggered the internal circulation of the team competition mechas, and derived many new playing styles.

On the contrary, the individual mecha, which is obviously the freest mecha, seems to be confined to a fixed environment.

The KID base is located near the Sirius Grand Canyon and covers a very large area. When the hovercraft arrives at the gate, one can see the vast base complex.

The gate outside the base looked particularly new. He had heard on the Internet that the KID base was very stingy, but when he arrived here, he felt that the KID base seemed to be willing to spend a lot of money. The erected KID base sign seemed to be built with expensive materials, giving it a special feeling.

As soon as the hovercraft landed, Jiang Yu saw a man in the distance who was dressed casually in slippers and shorts, with a bag in his hand. When he saw Jiang Yu, he waved at him.

If I hadn't seen the photo of KID's famous head coach Jiang Simiao on Starnet, I would have almost failed to recognize that the person in front of me was the coach Jiang who was known for being as unmovable as a mountain in the rest area.

"Jiang Yu, right?" Jiang Simiao asked.

Jiang Yu lowered his head slightly and caught a glimpse of the slippers on Jiang Simiao's feet. "Hello."

Jiang Simiao was particularly impressed by this young man named Jiang Yu. In his 5,000-word application letter, 2,000 words were spent praising Sink, and the remaining 3,000 words were spent explaining his purpose of coming to KID. I have seen people bragging about their own achievements in their applications, but I have never seen anyone bragging about their idol in an application and then wanting to participate in a team battle base.

"Jiang Yu, right? Your application and information have been approved. We can transfer the files once the window opens."

Jiang Simiao said: "I'll take you to get familiar with the base and move you in. Our base is a bit run-down, so don't mind it too much."

"No, yours is very good." Jiang Yu had just looked at the gate, which was better than that of Jiang Yu's old employer.

Seeing Jiang Yu's eyes stopped on the sign on the gate, Jiang Simiao was about to speak, but the next second there was a sudden loud roar. He instantly realized something, and quickly grabbed Jiang Yu and pulled him back.

Jiang Yu only heard a loud bang, and the originally magnificent main entrance of the KID base was hit by a huge hook lock, and debris and mechanical wall blocks fell in front of the two of them.

The man driving the transport truck leaned out of the window, his arm muscles bulging, and he looked like someone who was not easy to mess with: "Sorry, Lao Jiang, I'm just practicing with a newbie, I'm not very experienced."

Jiang Simiao: "How many times! All the money for repairing the door will be charged to your account!"

The muscular man waved his hand: "Remember it."

"The captain of our online store's material transport team is a retired border guard who is training new people. Be careful when you go out through the gate these days, don't get hit."

Seeing Jiang Yu's face covered in dust, Jiang Simiao handed him a piece of cleaning paper in a friendly manner: "Hey, you don't have to wear a suit so formally next time. You can be casual in the base and wear anything you want."

Jiang Yu suddenly understood why the door looked so new.

He walked inside, avoiding the gate with lingering fear. After just a few steps, he saw an orange-yellow object flying past him.

As the chicken ran, it sprayed water all over the ground.

Not far away, the pastoral-style buildings are very different from the modern high-tech buildings. Diagonally in front of them is a piece of farmland with lush green vegetables and several chickens running around.

There is a tea table in the small courtyard full of farmhouse atmosphere. Three old men in maintenance uniforms are sitting there drinking tea, chatting and laughing while playing chess.

"Mr. Qiu, your water chicken has escaped."

Jiang Simiao picked up the chick that ran in front of Jiang Yu and threw it back with ease.

"Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Jiang. Would you like some tea?" Mr. Qiu called out.

Jiang Simiao: "Take the new mecha master to familiarize himself with the place, and then the party."

Jiang Yu immediately recognized the old man sitting in the yard. He was an advisor to the Dawn Border Army and had directed operations on the Black Hole front.

The person next to him seemed to be an old professor, whom I had seen in news reports about the border.

The remaining old man was KID’s former team maintenance technician and now an innovator in Shuguang parts technology.

"Mr. Qiu is a former border military contaminant chemistry expert. He is now retired and works as a weapons consultant for us."

Jiang Simiao introduced: "This is Mr. Qiu's courtyard. He likes to drink tea with the old men in the base. You must not get close when he is not around. He has a lot of mechanical animals in his courtyard, including dogs, which can bite people."

This is a long story. Two years ago, when Mr. Qiu retired, he rushed to the KID base with his luggage and two personal soldiers. He refused to leave and said he wanted to retire here. Shen Xingtang naturally couldn't refuse a top pollution expert from coming here to retire, but after the first one came, a second one followed.

Mr. Qiu has a wide network of contacts and shares his daily retirement life on social platforms when he has nothing to do. Perhaps he promoted his ideas too mysteriously among the old men. In the past two years alone, several old professors and experts have been re-employed by the KID base, all of whom retired to live here. The farmyard has also been renovated several times.

KID doesn't have much else now. Half of the employees in the base are retired border army soldiers.

As soon as Jiang Yu moved his eyes away from the farmyard, he saw the building next door. The building had the architectural style of the fifth star field, full of futuristic technology, and looked very much like the style of the research institute's laboratory building in the central galaxy.

"The building opposite is Mr. Shi's collection hall. It is usually locked. Mr. Shi will stay there when he comes back." Jiang Simiao continued to introduce: "Mr. Shi Qingning is an external expert in supernatural crystal appreciation hired by our base. All supernatural crystal embryos that the base cannot detect will be handed over to him for identification. His original job is the deputy director of the Second Research Institute of the Fifth Star Region, and he only comes a few days every month."

Not only that, there are colorful buildings all around. When viewed from the outside, they are normal base buildings, but once you get inside, you will see vegetable fields, farmyards, collections, small medical stations... all kinds of styles overlapping each other, and there are also mechanical dogs and chickens running around on the road.

"Those are..." Jiang Yu held it in for a long time.

"These buildings are all expansions." Jiang Simiao said, "Basically, they were built by our base staff and their families. You can build them if you want. We are very free. We are paid enough. Our boss says we can build them however we want."

Jiang Simiao continued to introduce Jiang Yu and walked around.

Farmhouses, online stores, collection galleries... When you look further inside, it seems like there is a large villa built by someone.

There is everything, but it seems that there is no KID base.

When they arrived at the main building of the base, Jiang Yu was already a little dazed and his suit was mostly dirty. Jiang Simiao kindly handed him a pair of new slippers. As they approached the base, a man in guard uniform was standing outside the main building. When he saw Jiang Simiao, he threw his work badge over. It was a pass issued by the security department.

Jiang Simiao: "This is the captain of the base security team. He used to be an assault soldier. You have nothing to do during training. You can practice with him."

Jiang Yu asked in a low voice: "Isn't security now done by robots..."

Jiang Simiao: "There's nothing we can do. We only have a few positions at the base, and there are too many people applying. There are people looking for security and cleaning positions."

The most important thing is that these people are not short of money, they come here just to seek peace and quiet. KID is not large in scale, and if they come to work early, they can also be affiliated with the KID base and become a professional mecha technician, so more people come here.

Jiang Yu: “???”

When he saw the physical training ground in the main building, Jiang Yu realized the conditions of a normal mecha base. He saw a group of mecha technicians training quickly and steadily, their bodies covered in sweat, and slogans of "avenge the previous shame" echoed in the training room.

Jiang Yu remembered that not long after the team competition ended, this group of mecha masters did not take a vacation, and continued to train internally after the game. This kind of fighting spirit was something Jiang Yu had never seen in the previous mecha base.

"Coach Jiang, I want to train first." Jiang Yu said.

Jiang Simiao exclaimed: "You'd better not join them, they don't practice mecha."

Jiang Yu said seriously: "It's okay, I can adjust the original training plan to cooperate with the base training."

Jiang Simiao looked at Jiang Yu's serious expression, hesitant to speak, and glanced at the group of mecha masters, Ji Qingfeng who was the most active in training, and next to him was Ji Qingfeng's temporary coach Lin Yao, "They are going to the martial arts hall for special training in the second half of the month."

A few years ago, the Lin Family Martial Arts School's fighting arena almost became a regular program during the off-season. The martial arts school organized it every year, and the mecha masters participated every year. Their KID still did not lose out. There was someone in the team who was good at calculating, and they earned a lot of supernatural crystals. It’s just that Ji Qingfeng has been unwilling to give in ever since he was beaten and sent to the hospital in the martial arts gym a few years ago, but he still gets beaten every time he goes there every year.

In the past two years, the number of KID mecha technicians has increased. The mecha technicians who had just entered the base and were unaware of the situation were beaten by mecha technicians from other bases when they went to the martial arts gym for special training for the first time. Especially when they were protecting Ji Qingfeng, they were beaten even worse. This time, they had to train before going to the martial arts gym, preparing to return all the beatings they received last year.

Those who don't get beaten will basically not receive extra training. Only those who get beaten will receive special training here.

"It won't be too late to join them after you go to the martial arts hall." Jiang Simiao said, "I'll take you around first."

Jiang Yu was full of expectations for this unknown martial arts school.

On the way to the maintenance room, Jiang Simiao, who had been acting as a guide, received a call: "He just took a leave last week, and there is not much work in Jifeng these two days. I gave him the internal channel price for the batch of materials last week. Don't worry, just tell him that there will be new goods on the shelves this week, and he will definitely not resign."

"Xiao Jiang, you go shopping first." Jiang Simiao said, "There's someone who's leaving our online store, I'll go take a look. Call me sometimes."

Jiang Yu said yes, but was a little confused.

The team battle base Jifeng has a very good relationship with KID. When Jiang Yu learned about it, he also learned a little about the base that has a good relationship with KID. However, he seemed to have never heard of any business cooperation between Jifeng and KID.

Jiang Yu walked alone for a long time and suddenly arrived at the maintenance area.

The maintenance area was a corridor. The system recognized the pass card on him and quickly opened the door for him. He walked in curiously and saw a very spacious mecha parking area. The mechas in the front were the chief mechas participating in KID's team battle, and the one on the far left was very familiar to him. It was the mecha he had watched countless competition videos of.

Jiang Yu stopped and looked at the mecha inside through the perspective window.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Hello, is this Jiang Yu?"

Jiang Yu heard the voice and turned around, and saw a man in maintenance clothes.

When he saw him, Jiang Yu suddenly recalled Qiu Jinji's station many years ago. When they first met, he was also wearing such a maintenance suit.

"Sink..." Jiang Yu had thought about meeting again many times and even prepared a speech in his mind, but he didn't expect to meet him so suddenly. "Hello, Sink, I'm Jiang Yu. I've been watching your games for a long time and I've always wanted to meet you."

"I know you. We met in Qiujin."

Ying Chenlin was a little curious when he saw someone entering the base in a suit, but the man's suit was a little messy now, and his shoes had been changed into a pair of KID's base slippers.

"I've seen your game. Sanshui said you'll be working at our base." Ying Chenlin looked at him. "I just wanted to find you. Can you give me your mecha data?"

Jiang Yu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized something: "Is it okay?"

"Of course, you are our base's new mecha master." Ying Chenlin handed him a program board, "With your mecha data, the maintenance technicians at our base will be able to adjust the data for you."

Jiang Yu didn't expect to see Sink as soon as he arrived at the base, and even let Sink adjust the mecha data for him. He was a little flustered and took some time to input all the data. After the input, Sink entered his data into the base database and asked him a few questions, all related to individual soldiers.

Jiang Yu had also encountered maintenance technicians at his old employer who asked for mecha data, but those people never asked him for operational details.

While Jiang Yu was waiting nearby, he suddenly saw a man standing outside the maintenance room.

That was KID the gunner and mecha master. Jiang Yu’s impression of him was second only to Sink. In the competitions over the past few years, the mecha master who has always stood behind sink is trace. Many of the operations and cooperation achieved by the two have not yet been fully restored by other mecha masters.

There are not many gunner mecha divisions that can bring a sense of off-field oppression in team battles, and even fewer with clear and agile operations. When cooperating, he can maximize his functionality, and when dealing damage, he can suppress two mecha divisions alone.

In the eyes of individual soldiers, this type of gunner mecha division has very weak defense in team battles, and many teams basically will not let the gunner mecha division be alone. However, in KID's playing style, trace is a mecha division with a very high number of solo attacks, and is also the gunner mecha that has achieved the fastest shield breaking in the current Star Alliance Mecha League records.

For a period of time, Jiang Yu also saw the collective condemnation of the tank mechas, demanding to improve the defense parameters of the competition-level mechas.

It’s just that Trace doesn’t go online and doesn’t have any social media accounts. No matter what people say about him on Starnet, he still breaks the shield during the game and is not polite to anyone.

The man leaning on the side seemed to notice Jiang Yu's gaze and glanced at him slightly.

Ying Chenlin registered the information and said, "I have something to do, so I'll leave first. I'll let you know when the remaining data comes out."

Jiang Yu was a little excited: "Okay, thank you."

"Welcome to KID." Ying Chenlin said.

Just when Jiang Yu was about to say a few more words to Ying Chenlin, he saw him pick up the computer on the programming table and turn around to walk out of the maintenance room. When the people standing there saw Ying Chenlin walk out, they naturally walked over to him.

The other person's hand fell on Ying Chenlin's shoulder very naturally, and he pinched Sink's shoulder while walking.

The sink didn't look at the road, but seemed to be looking at the message from the optical computer, and was completely led by the trace.

Jiang Yu stood at the door of the maintenance room, thinking about the base interview long ago when KID won the first Star Alliance Championship.

He suddenly realized something, but did not take another step forward.

"Are you done with your work?" You Su asked.

Ying Chenlin said: "It took some time. A single soldier came to the base and I just found him to confirm the data."

"I remember him. Do you remember Black Hole? He was guarding a base station with us at that time."

You Su glanced at the person behind him. He had no impression of people he had no connection with. "Do you want to fight him alone when you see him?"

"Not for now. I can't figure out PJT's tactics in the last game. I need to study it further." Ying Chenlin is now interested in countering each other's moves. In last year's Star Alliance Championship, EM and PJT had changed several tactics. If they don't come up with a better way to deal with it, they will probably be in trouble next season. "When the materials arrive, we will test whether we can improve the short-term attack power of your guns and cannons."

The two of them have lived in the base for the past few years. When the training is over, You Su will come here to wait for him. If it is early, they will go to the materials market. Ying Chenlin got a dealer connection from Xun Bao. Hearing that the dealer's cargo ship would dock at Sirius today, he thought of going there to buy some materials.

On the way there, You Su received a call from Lieutenant General Lin.

"He's on leave next week, and he said he'd come to the base."

You Su said: "Let me take you out for dinner."

Ying Chenlin paused for a moment, "Let's go buy some gifts later."

Lieutenant General Lin knew about the two of them being together a long time ago, and every time he had dinner with You Su, he would always ask You Su to bring him along.

Since the Battle of Kronos, Lieutenant General Lin and You Su have been communicating more frequently. Occasionally, Ying Chenlin would see You Su communicating with Lin Yi, but the conversations between the father and son seemed like routine questions, lasting only two or three minutes each time and ending after they hung up.

Although he didn't talk much, during the last Star Alliance Tournament, Ying Chenlin met Lieutenant General Lin and his adjutant when he was leaving the stadium. The two seemed to be on vacation and came to watch the game without even telling You Su.

Later, You Su found out about it, and whenever there was a competition, he asked Shen Xingtang to send family coupons over in the name of the base, and Lieutenant General Lin would be there every time.

The two went to the materials market and bought the batch of materials that Ying Chenlin wanted. It was already evening when they filled in the address, and the edge of the Sirius city was filled with afterglow.

As soon as he left the materials market, Ying Chenlin's optical computer started to buzz.

"Sanshui's message. He said he would hold a welcoming party for Xiao Jiang tonight and asked when we would be back." Ying Chenlin almost forgot about it after seeing the message. "We have to go back quickly."

You Su stood at the door waiting. The word "payment" appeared on the shopping interface of the light brain. His fingers quickly selected, "Wait a minute, the things in the bathroom are used up, buy some to take back."

Ying Chenlin was originally sending a message to Jiang Simiao. When he heard about the things in the bathroom, he paused and suddenly said, "I bought it."

You Su chose a new model and placed an order: "Then keep it as a spare."

As the hovercraft drove closer to the KID base, the light where the horizons intersected gradually dimmed.

The car stopped outside the base. When You Su got out, he found Ying Chenlin standing beside the car and looking up at the sky.

Just as he was about to speak, he heard a clear and loud shout from a distance.

"Hey, what are you two doing!" At the entrance of KID base in the distance, Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao were holding barbecue and shouting from a distance, "You two are the only ones missing for the welcoming banquet!"

There was a light on in the base in the distance. The charcoal smoke from the outdoor barbecue filled the entrance of the base. Young people in casual clothes gathered around an antique charcoal grill that they had found from nowhere. The older people such as Qiu Lao were sitting and drinking tea. Huo Yan and Lu Xi were distributing plates to others. Jiang Simiao stood at the edge of the bustle, holding his laptop and seemed to be persuading someone earnestly. Shen Xingtang was talking to Shi Qingning who had just arrived at the base...

Ying Chenlin looked at the crowd in the distance and suddenly said, "I remember the first time I came to Sirius for an interview, the wind seemed to be this cool that day."

You Su's gaze stopped at Ying Chenlin, and he lowered his head and kissed the side of his face, "It's a good thing you came for the interview."

"Yeah, luckily I'm here."

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