Chapter 143 Final

Mingyu knew nothing about the initial turmoil on Starnet.

The aircraft landed on the temporary apartment's parking area. He paused his conversation with Cui Xiaoduo, took a final look at the design draft for the space shuttle project he had prepared, and was the first to open the hatch.

Cui Xiaoduo, still in a daze, didn't notice Mingyu's actions and simply followed Mingyu down the aircraft. Looking up, he saw a familiar figure standing in front of the apartment building's entrance.

Cui Xiaoduo put his arm around Mingyu's shoulder, waved, and called out, "Here I am, Grandpa! Why are you here so early? Don't you have a meeting this afternoon and shouldn't arrive until five o'clock?"

Su Bing turned around when he heard the voice, and his eyes swept across his eldest grandson's face, then fixed on Mingyu's face, and then his eyes lit up.

He took two quick steps forward, without the slightest bit of designer airs. He eagerly extended his hand to Mingyu, saying repeatedly, "Are you An Qiu's child? You're such a handsome boy!"

Su Bing was short, his hair completely white, his face rosy. Seeing Mingyu, his eyes narrowed into slits, his face full of kindness. He took Mingyu's hand and said with emotion, "Xiaoduo told me you were an excellent student, especially in the history of starship design. Hey, my dear child, it's all Ming Zhilang and his wife who have been so heartless and delayed you! Not only did they prevent you from awakening your spiritual power, but they also deliberately kept you away from starship navigation since childhood."

"Don't be sad, kid. Space navigation history may sound like a field that studies the past, but it's also very useful. Only by constantly learning from past mistakes can humanity correct and progress."

Mingyu was slightly stunned by what he said, and it took him a while to realize that all Su Bing knew was "Mingyu", a sophomore student in the Department of Space Navigation History at Capital University.

He glanced at Cui Xiaoduo. Cui Xiaoduo shrugged and said silently, "I promise to keep Luce's identity a secret. You can tell me what you want to say."

Mingyu immediately gave him a look of gratitude.

Ming Zhilang and his wife have been convicted. He did not announce his identity on Starnet, but he did not deliberately conceal it either. Therefore, when he thought about meeting Su Bing, he forgot that he was still wearing a vest.

Mingyu smiled and said politely as Su Bing pulled him into the elevator, "Grandpa Su, things are not that bad."

He was afraid that the old man would misunderstand for too long, so he got straight to the point and simply opened the prepared project introduction screen and pushed it in front of Su Bing.

"Minister Gao Siqi told you before that the Interstellar Navigation Department has approved a new research direction for a space shuttle exploration vessel," Ming Yu said tactfully. "I am the main person in charge of the experiment."

Su Bing: "..."

Su Bing opened his eyes slightly, looked at the screen, then at Mingyu. The old man held his breath and said nothing for a long time, just pulling the screen in front of him and reading carefully.

A few minutes later, the group had entered the temporary apartment and set out their takeout on the dining table. Su Bing still stood at the apartment door, repeatedly reading the screens and occasionally looking up at Mingyu, who was setting the table.

"Don't look at Grandpa." Cui Xiaoduo sat at the table, smelling the delicious food and waiting for the meal to start. "No matter what happens, we can't delay the meal!"

Su Bing: "..."

Su Bing raised his eyebrows, realizing that his grandson had concealed a lot of the truth about Mingyu from him. He glared at Cui Xiaoduo fiercely, pointed at him and said, "Hey! You kid, if you don't tell me the whole story—"

"I asked Senior Cui to keep it a secret for me." Ming Yu quickly explained, "At the time, I felt that the Ming family's attitude towards me was strange, so I didn't want them to know that I had awakened my spiritual power."

When Su Bing heard Mingyu's words, his kind expression immediately returned. He quickly patted Mingyu on the shoulder and said, "You did the right thing! Fortunately, you were careful and cautious..."

"Good boy, you still suffer in the Ming family!"

As he spoke, he pulled the screen over to sit next to Mingyu. Cui Xiaoduo stuffed chopsticks into his right hand, but his free left hand didn't hold the bowl. He pointed at the screen and said, "Hey, Mingyu, eat. Grandpa has a question for you. Think about it while you eat."

Mingyu: “…”

Mingyu put down his bowl without saying a word.

"Look at this formula here," Su Bing asked seriously, "you added a random influence term to the classic model. What's your reasoning behind this?"

Cui Xiaoduo rolled his eyes as he sat across the table, picked up a chicken leg with chopsticks and put it into the old man's bowl, trying to interrupt his question, but failed.

"And here." Su Bing took the chopsticks and used the end of the chopsticks as a pen to write and draw on Mingyu's light screen. "Did the derivation of this optimal stable structure skip a few steps? Can you tell me which theorem you quoted? I always feel that the scaling calculation here is a bit excessive..."

Mingyu's attention has shifted from the food in front of him to the light screen.

He sat up straight and answered Su Bing's questions one by one. Mu Baixing glanced at him and took advantage of the gap in the young man's thinking to pick out a few dishes that Mingyu liked and fed them into his mouth.

Mingyu was busy discussing something with Su Bing. He took a few bites before he realized what was happening. His ears turned red and he glared at him warningly. He picked up the chopsticks again and started eating by himself.

Cui Xiaoduo: “…”

He looked at his grandfather, then at Mingyu, then at Mingyu, then at Mu Baixing, then at Mu Baixing, then at Mu Lian.

"Come here, Brother Lian." Cui Xiaoduo didn't want to care about those two bookworms who treated delicious food as nothing, nor did he want to watch Mu Baixing's silent display of affection, so he simply changed a few dishes and pushed them between himself and Mu Lian.

"These are all your favorites! Let's just eat our own and ignore them!"

Mu Lian: "..."

It was rare for Mulan not to react much to Cui Xiaoduo's proposal.

As a member of the Mu family, he had always held a deep reverence for the Celtic King. Seeing Qi Wei kneeling and howling "Your Majesty" early in the morning, he was even more shocked than Cui Xiaoduo.

Mu Lian's face was expressionless, but her movements were slower than usual. She ate slowly, her eyes unconsciously glancing at Ming Yu and Mu Bai Xing.

Qi Wei, who was sitting next to him, ate even slower than him.

The Second Legion's deputy commander had no appetite, only picking up his chopsticks after a long pause. He lowered his head, secretly turning on his communication screen, and under the table, he was messaging his former colleagues, who had just received the Celtic King's order and were frantically sending him messages.

"It wasn't stolen. How could the King Ring be stolen? Even if it was stolen, ordinary people can't open the ring box that contains the King Ring."

"Yes, it's His Majesty Lando. I saw him... How could I be fooled! Just because you haven't seen His Majesty's face doesn't mean I haven't! Besides, you'll know once you come to the Central Star Region. The aura of His Majesty is something that no one can fake."

"You should wait for His Majesty to tell you what Wang Ling means. I suspect it's related to the survivors in the Northern Star Region. You've all seen the news, right? Your Majesty and Mr. Ming rescued dozens of survivors from the Fifth Star. We suspect there may be more trapped within the Black Tide Star Sea."

"Yes, it's Queen... that title has been changed! Remember to call him Mr. Ming when you meet him. Yes, yes, His Majesty and Mr. Ming have a very good relationship. Don't say that His Majesty is a lifelong bachelor. Come and see for yourself."

"I'm already full of dog food!"

During the meal, only Cui Xiaoduo and Wucai Toumao were really concentrating on eating.

Cui Xiaoduo wielded his chopsticks quickly, occasionally looking up and scanning the table of people with different thoughts. Finally, he showed a little relief when he saw the actions of the colorful-haired people, and clinked his juice glass with the red-haired one.

"What the hell!" The talented young designer gulped down the juice in his hand, and muttered to the rest of the group, "Do you understand what it means to never miss out on delicious food?"

Time flies, and Mingyu has been busy since that day.

With the addition of Su Bing, the development of the space shuttle starship progressed rapidly.

A week later, the special energy generator developed for space shuttle travel was delivered. Two weeks later, the shuttle ship prototype was completed and began testing. A month later, the Space Navigation Department solicited participants from long-term exploration teams for internal confidential experiments. The chosen team was named Nirvana Bird, and their captain was Sun Ze, whom Mingyu happened to have met at home.

Sun Ze was a member of the Northern Star Region Royal Fleet. He arrived at the Capital Star on the third day after Mu Bai issued the summons. Like all the others who arrived later, he entered with red eyes and left with red eyes. Before leaving, he bowed to Ming Yu several times with great gratitude, as if Ming Yu was his own savior.

As time went by, the space shuttle project got on track. Mingyu had new ideas about the research and development of highly autonomous starships by repeatedly reading the information left by An Qiu in the past few weeks.

When inspiration comes, he often stays up all night, redrawing and revising the design draft over and over again.

Mu Boxing was weak at first and fell into a deep sleep, so he didn't notice anything. Later, as his body recovered, he gradually felt something was wrong.

After the one-month punishment expired, he took a different approach. In order to prevent Mingyu from staying up late, he began to force the young man to do intense exercises in bed before going to bed.

Although Mu Baixing was quite self-controlled and never affected the young man's life the next day, after a few nights, Mingyu was still a little afraid of him. When it was time to go to bed, he turned off the lights and closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep.

It’s not that I don’t like it.

The lights were turned on and the two of them hugged each other tightly (just a hug).

Mingyu was deeply immersed in his arms, surrounded by his breath.

Mu Boguild hugged him without moving.

On the verge of losing control, she would constantly caress and kiss the young man's face, wiping away his tears. (From the neck up.)

Mingyu only felt his hot breath brushing against his ear. The man's hoarse breath, mixed with the most restrained breath, had lost its usual cool tone. In the dark night, it was extremely alluring. (From the neck up)

"Mingyu." Mu Baixing always called him in a hoarse voice at this time, "Is it okay? Mingyu...Mingyu."

He tried his best to restrain himself, but it was really hard to endure.

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The usually calm man was consumed by lust. This moment of reason triumphing over desire contained his greatest tenderness, and thus became even more sexy. (This means that the top was trying to restrain himself and not doing anything.)

Mingyu actually likes to listen to Mu Baixing's restrained tone at this time the most.

But the storm always comes, and Mu Baixing is never satisfied, but he also realizes that the night is too late, so he has to let Mingyu go from his arms and take a cold shower to calm himself down. (Note that this is not done here)

Mingyu heard him hum through the bathroom door several times. He really liked it. He was taking advantage of her and was being ungrateful. His mind was wandering and he would not pass the review. (Nothing happened between them through the door)

This wasn't going well. Mingyu knew that if he really dared to speak, Mu Baixing would definitely keep doing it all night.

...Then don't even think about doing any real work the next day.

The research and development of shuttle ships and highly autonomous starships, preparations for the finals of the Star Navigation Competition, search and rescue exploration in the Kuroshio Star Sea... Mingyu sorted out the important things in his mind and felt that he couldn't let himself go yet.

Mu Baixing is also busy.

After initially summoning his most trusted subordinates, except for Sun Ze's exploration team which was left in the central star field to assist Ming Yu in conducting experiments, he sent the remaining subordinates who were in charge of the exploration team to the free star field, integrated the resources of his exploration team that had originally stayed in the free star field, and entered the Black Tide Star Sea several times.

Several former members of the Royal Guard who had originally left the star navigation also returned to their old jobs and boarded the starship.

Mu Baixing kept an eye on the Black Current Star Sea and spent a lot of time every day reading the images and reports of the exploration records.

Although each report showed no abnormalities, he did not let his guard down.

The high-level black tide creature whose appearance changed into Ming Zhuofeng was very powerful.

Its obsession with Ming Zhuofeng's appearance, its revenge on the Ming family, and its action of sending Elbin to "take" Ming Yu back to the Black Tide Star Sea... all show his extraordinary nature.

This was a Kuroshio creature that was very close to humans, and it was unlike any Kuroshio creature humans had ever encountered before.

It possesses a strong obsession and malice, and this desire cannot be easily eliminated by a serious injury.

"It was transformed from parasitic humans during the Battle of Dawn." Mu Baixing pulled out the list of casualties in the Battle of Dawn and his eyes fell on the list of Ming Zhuofeng's fleet members.

"It inherits his spiritual power and should not be underestimated."

The electronic pen in the man's hand fell on the second pilot Hao Lan in the main ship where Ming Zhuofeng was.

"Psychic characteristic 'transformation'." His voice was slightly cold, and his brows were frowned.

Mu Baixing has seen him.

The driver on the reserve position was very young, lively and obedient. When standing next to Ming Zhuofeng, he looked more like General Ming's younger brother than Ming Zhilang.

He had not been in the military for long, but because of his outstanding ability and good character, he was transferred to the position of backup pilot of the main ship.

In the image projected on the light screen, Hao Lan was wearing a neat military uniform, smiling brightly, and looking full of energy.

Mu Baixing looked at it for a moment, marked his information as high-risk, turned off the light screen, and logged into the virtual mining area to start today's spiritual recovery training.

By the way, find some snacks and rations for the firebird cubs.

In the starship parking room in the mining area, Mingyu was sitting and waiting for him while drawing the design draft.

When the young man saw Mu Baixing appear, he immediately raised his head from the design draft and pressed the timing button.

"Within three hours!" He stood up and followed Mu Baixing onto the exploration starship.

This exploration starship was no longer the outdated look Mingyu had first seen. Its hull looked regular, but the engines, gun barrels, and internal wiring... all had been modified by Mingyu's design, resulting in exceptional performance.

The designer sat next to Mu Boxing and put on an observation helmet.

"Let's go! Brother Mu!" He said in the tone of an elementary school student on a spring outing, "Let's go hunting for the birds! Take care of yourself and don't force yourself! Let's go—"

Mu Baixing curled the corners of his lips slightly and took him into the sky.

The final date of the Star Navigation Competition was approaching day by day. When there were twenty days left, the organizing committee announced the final topic in advance.

"The final topic of the Star Navigation Competition is as follows:"

"The finals of this Star Navigation Competition are divided into two stages, with no rest period between stages."

"The first stage, crossing the sea of ​​stars, the red and blue formations fight freely."

"Each team will depart from the starting point outside of Kashi Space City, cross the competition area, and enter the port after reaching the final space station. Upon departure, each team will be assigned a Red or Blue Faction identity. While crossing the competition area, teams can observe the identity colors of surrounding fleets and freely form alliances to fight against the enemy."

"Successfully shooting down an enemy team will earn 10 points, and there's a chance of a random faction switch. The downed team must call for a repair starship on the spot, and then take off again after repairs."

"Once all teams reach the finish line, the first stage ends. Additional points will be awarded to each team based on their arrival time. The ratio of time points to starship shot down points will be calculated at 7:3. The competition will then enter the second stage, the Air Star Maze."

"The competition will provide starship fuel to each participating team based on their points in the first stage. All teams will enter the Air Star Maze from different entrances."

"The final ranking of the Star Navigation Competition will be determined by the time it takes to reach the center of the maze and find the competition badge box."

"Teams that fail to reach the center of the maze will no longer have the opportunity to repair and will automatically be eliminated from the competition. Their ranking will be moved down, calculated based on their distance from the center of the maze."

"The finals of this year's Star Navigation Competition will be held offline. The starships used in the competition are standard large warships provided by the organizing committee. Each team can freely modify the warship within ten days before the start of the first stage of the competition. The Star Navigation Competition does not restrict the materials used for modification, and each team is required to bring their own materials."

"Refits will cease three days before the start of the first stage of the competition. All teams' modified starships will undergo a maximum power attack test. The test results will be kept confidential to each team. The Star Navigation Competition will install special safety escape pods on each warship based on the highest attack value to maximize the safety of the contestants."

"Special reminder, the finals are risky, and the Star Navigation Competition is not responsible for the safety of the contestants."

"If you wish to withdraw from the competition for safety reasons, please click the following link within three days..."

The grand competition, held every five years, finally reached its finals, and the Starnet was abuzz. Star navigation fans across the entire star region were locked in on the official livestream, their fears of an invasion and attack from the Central Star Region the previous Black Tide Day completely dispelled.

Ten days before the competition started, the Star Navigation Competition live broadcast room was opened after a long absence, and a baby-faced man appeared on the screen.

He was wearing a black velvet suit, a tie, and a top hat. Two high-standing fake furry rabbit ears peeked out from the top of the hat, and when he turned around, a round rabbit tail peeked out from the hem of his hat.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Long time no see! - I wonder if you missed me!" The rabbit host held a gentleman's cane in his hand, and a microphone with a red bow tie hung in front of him, broadcasting his voice clearly to the ears of every audience watching the game.

He bowed deeply, raised his head, and blinked at the screen. "Although I know everyone prefers the furry bunny in a tuxedo! But in order to comply with the offline format of the Star Navigation Competition, I can only obey the organizing committee's request and participate in person. I'm sorry—"

The rabbit ears on the host's head used nerve conduction technology and swayed as he spoke, making him look very vivid.

"Well, I'm sure everyone knows! The finals won't start for another ten days! So, today's live broadcast will be the pre-match interview, of course!"

"So many major events have happened in the Human Star Region recently! I wonder if any of the audience still remembers that the interviews with the players, originally scheduled for after the Star Region Tournament, haven't even taken place yet..."

"Yes, yes, if I hadn't received the notice, I would have completely forgotten about this matter!"

"Today! All the teams participating in the finals have arrived at Cash Space City and started to modify their participating starships! Let's take this opportunity to go to their team workshops and take a look!"