Chapter 170
Chapter 170
One hundred and fifty million, KID's liquid funds have never had such a rich number. The check from the Border Army was passed around in the hands of KID people in turn. After repeatedly confirming those zeros, KID's mecha masters realized that they might really be able to go to the Star Conference to see the market.
"When will the Xingxiu Club start?" Lin Yao couldn't wait any longer. "How do I check the time?"
"The Xingxiu Club will not announce the time on the Xingxiu website. It is said that there is a special mark on each admission ticket." Jiang Simiao took one of the admission tickets and scanned it using the optical computer's scanning system. Soon, a special virtual webpage popped up in front of him, "Got it... Let me check the time."
February 16, 1247 in the Star Calendar, the Silver Moon Galaxy in the Fifth Star Region.
Shen Xingtang paused for a moment when he saw the date: "47? Isn't that this year?"
"Isn't February 16th five days from now?" Ji Qingfeng: "So urgent!?"
KID has just finished the promotion match. Counting the matches in other groups in the promotion match, their Group A has the longest rest time, and they will have nearly a month of rest. A month is not a long time. The mecha operators need to train and prepare for battle, and nearly half a month may be spent on repairing and preparing the mechas. The timing of this Star Appreciation Conference is not too coincidental.
Jiang Simiao had a headache when he saw the time. The ranking match was against a really strong team from Dawn. He had originally planned to give the mecha masters two days to rest and use the rest of the time for training. But since they had to go to the appreciation meeting, the training time was a bit tight. "The time may not be enough."
He looked at Shen Xingtang: "What do you mean?"
Lin Yao had just become happy, but when he heard this, he became depressed again, "Does that mean I can't go?"
Ying Chenlin held the admission card and also looked at Jiang Simiao and Shen Xingtang.
"It will take at least two days to get from Sirius to the Silver Moon Galaxy." Shen Xingtang immediately checked the flight information. "It will take four days to go back and forth. The duration of the appreciation meeting is uncertain. If you go, you will have six days less to train."
She paused for a moment and raised her eyes slightly: "It's not impossible. If you go, you won't have any days off after you come back. It's equivalent to saving up the last month's days off for you in advance. Is that okay?"
Is there a problem with this? no problem.
KID and the others happily agreed, and turned to go to the room to pack their luggage and prepare for the star region trip in advance.
River
The trip to the Silver Moon Galaxy Appreciation Conference three days later was settled. When Shen Xingtang was busy looking for channels to buy discounted tickets for the spacecraft to the Silver Moon Galaxy, it happened that Boss Zhou from Jianheng came to Sirius for an inspection. Upon hearing about this, he waved his hand and contracted KID's round-trip air ticket.
Shen Xingtang: "Isn't this a bad idea?"
"It just so happens that I also have to go on a business trip to the Fifth Star Region, so it's okay to take them along the way." Since the parts technology of Boss Zhou's company has been successfully advanced, orders from the outer star region have continued, and the number of business trips has increased during this period. "Don't worry, Boss Shen, I will bring them back to you in one piece."
Shen Xingtang: "...I'm afraid they will cause you trouble."
Boss Zhou responded readily, "Why would it be a problem? Thanks to KID's good performance, our A-class mechas are now selling very well, and the advertising effect is very good."
While KID was training painfully and looking forward to the star field trip, the Border Army issued a collective thank you announcement, expressing gratitude to the four major bases in the Dawn Galaxy and several bases in the Second Star Field for the Koria Forbidden Zone accident. Originally, the star network only knew about the restricted area accident through a simple announcement. It was not until this thank you announcement came out that KID's fans learned that KID had quietly done something big with the three major bases.
For a time, there were more and more reports about KID on Starnet, and various media outlets competed to report on it.
But I don't know which unscrupulous media released the photos of them returning from the airport that day, with the caption [After a hard battle, returning home in glory], which greatly earned KID's points from his old fans. Many sponsors came to him because of this, and the conditions and sponsorship fees became visibly better.
Ji Qingfeng felt like he had worn the hat for nothing that day: "You said you could change the photo! If you really can't do it, come to our base to take the photo. Why did you choose this photo?"
“Maybe we need to show a sense of vicissitudes and simplicity.” Huo Yan didn’t care much about his external image. “Look at the comments. They all say that we are very real.”
Lin Yao said: "There's nothing wrong with having stubble. How come I don't grow any stubble after sleeping?"
"That's because you are young." Ji Qingfeng looked at the photo on the laptop, "Forget about Lin Yao, I also know Ximei is a girl, but how come Chen Lin and Youge are so clean."
Ying Chenlin was suddenly called out and replied, "I woke up earlier than you."
You Su was not interested in this topic and was still looking at the auction information of various online auctions on Star Network.
Shen Xingtang knew that this was all superficial vanity. After all, the difference between the Dawn Top 8 and the Dawn Top 16 was too great. If he couldn't maintain his results, this vanity would soon go away. In today's Star Alliance, what is most lacking is mecha bases, and every year countless bases are working hard to climb up.
She asked Gu Xiaotian to help keep an eye on the information on Dianxing.com and then she paid no more attention to it.
After the promotion match, KID has a busy period. The ores brought back from the science cemetery cave have to be put on the shelves in batches, he has to go to the alliance headquarters to collect the promotion match prize money, and he also has to deal with other things. Considering that there were still trivial matters to be dealt with in the base, the progress of mecha maintenance needed to be accelerated, and the matters of the Silver Moon Galaxy Star Society, Shen Xingtang and Jiang Simiao had no time to lead the team over.
The chief financial officers who went to the appreciation meeting this time were Huo Yan and Ying Chenlin, and the check for 150 million star coins representing KID's entire fortune fell on Huo Yan.
On the day of departure, Boss Zhou's private spaceship stopped at the airport. KID's six mecha technicians, each carrying a suitcase, boarded the spaceship as Shen Xingtang and Jiang Simiao watched them go.
"Is it really okay to let Huo Yan take care of it?" Jiang Simiao looked at Shen Xingtang.
Shen Xingtang half closed his eyes, turned around and left: "If something happens, you will be able to see them on Starnet."
The group of people were unaware of the worries of their elderly mother and father at home. As soon as they got on the spaceship, they were taken to the room of the spaceship by Boss Zhou's secretary. Boss Zhou's spaceship is a small spaceship, usually used for business trips. There are not many suites on the spaceship, so he prepared four rooms for KID.
As a girl, Luxi lived in a single room, and the remaining three were double rooms for the five remaining boys to share.
Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao chose a room with the best view. Huo Yan saw them walking over with great interest and said, "Chen Lin, shall I give you the remaining room with a view? I heard that the interstellar view over at Silver Moon is pretty good. It's a rare trip."
Ying Chenlin nodded and said thank you to Huo Yan.
You Su: "I'll live with him."
Huo Yan was about to ask where You Su lived, and when he heard this, he agreed, "Then Chen Lin, are you ok with You Su?"
Ying Chenlin nodded.
He was about to pick up his suitcase, but saw that his suitcase had already been taken by You Su.
After the rooms were divided, several people returned to their respective rooms.
The room has two separate beds and is fully equipped. One of the beds is right next to the window, from which you can see the vast universe at a glance. After Ying Chenlin entered the room, he walked a few steps to the window and looked at Sirius getting farther and farther away. Suddenly, he realized that in the past two lifetimes, the last time he left the First Star Region for an interstellar voyage was in his previous lifetime.
You Su fell behind the crowd and saw the boy walk a few steps to the window. His eyes seemed to be glued to the scenery outside. He slightly withdrew his gaze.
When Ying Chenlin came to his senses, You Su had already chosen the bed inside.
"I'm going to take a shower."
Ying Chenlin was in a hurry to go out. He had just come out of the maintenance room not long ago and still smelled of engine oil.
The only bathroom in the room was dimly lit.
You Su was using his light brain to read information on the Star Network. After about ten minutes, he couldn't help but look in the direction of the bathroom. The special glass wall prevented the sound of dripping water from being heard.
…It took a while to wash, almost 20 minutes.
You Su crossed out the information on the computer. He stood up slightly, walked to the bathroom and was about to knock on the door to inquire about the situation.
At this time, the bathroom door opened.
A person appeared in You Su's field of vision. The boy's hair was wet and he had a bath towel on his head that almost covered his shoulders. A dark brown mechanical arm was placed behind his head, and it seemed that he was still wiping his hair.
The boy didn't notice him and walked out while wiping his head. He accidentally bumped into You Su who was standing at the door.
He was slightly startled, his eyes emerged from under the bath towel, and he asked in surprise: "Brother You?"
You Su paused and took a step back. "So long?"
The boy's upper body was covered with a thin layer of muscle lines, and the water droplets sank down. You Su's sight finally stopped on his loose knee-length shorts.
"Where are the clothes?" You Su asked.
Ying Chenlin held a towel on his head, his hair still dripping with water, "I forgot to bring my shirt, and I called you from inside, but there seemed to be no sound."
You Su's peripheral vision fell on the bed in the distance and he saw a black T-shirt. He walked back a few steps, approached Ying Chen's bed and threw the T-shirt to him. Ying Chenlin took it and put on the T-shirt without any hesitation, then sat on the sofa next to him and wiped his hair.
The temperature on the spaceship was constant, but it was extremely hot in the Silver Moon Galaxy, so they all wore short-sleeved shirts when they went out.
You Su was used to seeing Ying Chenlin wearing maintenance work clothes in the base. Even when he was wearing casual home clothes, he usually wore long sleeves and long pants, and rarely saw him wearing shorts and short sleeves.
I didn't pay attention to it before, but now I find that Ying Chenlin's legs are white and straight.
Ying Chenlin was wiping his hair when he noticed You Su's eyes on him, so he said, "The clothes were bought by Lin Yao. He had a buy-one-get-one-free deal on the T-shirt he liked last time. Our sizes are similar, so we decided to buy it together."
You Su realized that his gaze stayed on Ying Chenlin for too long, so he looked away and said, "Huo Yan sent a message asking us to come over."
Ying Chenlin picked up the laptop and saw the message Huo Yan sent in the group ten minutes ago, "Then let's go there now."
He put down the bath towel and walked out. Seeing this, You Su frowned slightly and reached out to grab Ying Chenlin's collar again.
"Come here." You Su loosened his collar and led him to the bathroom. He found a quick-drying hair helmet from the hidden cabinet in the bathroom and said, "Blow dry your hair before you leave."
Ying Chenlin stood in place, and soon a helmet was put on his head. He didn't know there was such a thing inside.
The bathroom was filled with the smell of shower gel. The moisture had been exhausted, but there was an indescribable oppressive heat.
You Su stared at the rebellious child wearing a helmet in front of him, his gaze resting on the fair skin at the collar of his black T-shirt. His hair was no longer dripping, but his skin was a little red from being steamed.
Ying Chenlin raised his eyes slightly and noticed You Su's gaze: "Why are you looking at me?"
"You look as thin as a bamboo pole." You Suo reached out to take off his helmet, and his face turned a little red. "Why don't you gain weight with the food you eat normally?"
Ying Chenlin said: "I have grown taller and gained two kilograms."
You Su laughed.
It would take at least two days to fly to the Silver Moon Galaxy, and they couldn't just sit there and wait during this time. Jiang Simiao prepared a lot of combat videos of the teams before departure, so that they would not be idle every day and could watch more combat videos of other teams to learn from them or figure out their weaknesses.
When they boarded the spaceship, Jifeng's promotion match was in progress, and several people gathered in Huo Yan's room to watch the game.
"The wind seems to be stronger than last year."
"The shield that Shen Lin made for Lao Zhao is now on the field. He can really resist."
"Next time you meet Lao Zhao, you have to avoid his shield. Otherwise, once his shield is opened, his guns and cannons will be protected tightly."
Ying Chenlin was looking at Jifeng's combat system. From the perspective of the various mecha bases of Dawn, Black Crow was good at long-range attacks, YDS was good at coordinated control... and Jifeng showed an omnipotent feeling. They had an excellent front row and a back row with sufficient endurance. In addition, Jifeng's combat core was in Qi Sicheng, and he could always use tactics to the extreme.
The most crucial point is that he discovered that most of the weapons used by Ji Feng this season were lightning and water weapons.
Qi Sicheng himself is a control mecha master who is good at using thunder-controlled weapons. Now that some mechas have also been equipped with thunder-controlled weapons, the linkage ability of the entire team will become very strong.
"Lightning weapons have strong offensive control capabilities, and water weapons have strong conduction effects." Huo Yan looked at the situation in the game and analyzed: "Look at Jifeng, their combat methods are actually biased towards the methods of other mecha teams in the First Star Region. The core of their weapons is powerful, and they consider the combination of 1 + 1 to be far greater than 2."
For example, Qi Sicheng uses dual thunder-controlled weapons, while Ji Feng's guns use water-based long-range attack weapons.
After the control of the thunder system, the damage conduction effect can be better achieved... This method of using the properties of the energy crystal to cooperate in combat is relatively rare in the Dawn Galaxy, but Ying Chenlin knows that the combat system will always be changing. In the future, the cooperation between mechas will be closer, and the linkage effect of the weapon core will be stronger.
Weapon core energy crystals, Jifeng has enough financial resources, they can match the most suitable weapons for the team.
It is actually not easy to deal with a team like Gale. It is difficult to find the weaknesses of an all-round team and it is difficult to break through by force. If you encounter a polluted area with simple terrain, it can easily become Gale's home court.
"If we look at the properties of our weapons, it seems that our weapons are mostly wind-attributed." Lin Yao calculated, "Brother You uses a dual-wind attribute weapon, and Brother Huo's Sky Shock Blade can barely be considered wind, right? And our other weapons that haven't been used yet, many of our weapons in the ranking competition are wind-attributed weapons."
Ji Qingfeng: "Yaobao, think about it differently. Wind-attribute weapons are very expensive! 80 million!"
"I heard there are a lot of supernatural crystals at the appreciation meeting. How many can we buy with our money?" Huo Yan thought of this and began to plan, "We need to determine our goal first."
"As for supernatural crystals, our base doesn't have many control supernatural crystals, so we have to look at some special supernatural crystals." Ying Chenlin said: "As for supernatural crystals, unpopular supernatural crystals such as wind and ice are expensive. For attack types, we can look at fire supernatural crystals, and for control or auxiliary types, we can look at wood and water supernatural crystals."
After listening to this, KID and the others realized that what Ying Chenlin was talking about were not very expensive energy crystals.
The appreciation meeting does not provide a selection catalogue like ordinary auctions. You can only know what special crystals are available at the appreciation meeting when you go to the scene.
Mr. Qiu sent a total of three admission tickets, and they could bring their companions with them. After they filled in their information on the tickets, the Xingxiu Club knew about their situation. The two-day flight time was very fast, and when we arrived at the Silver Moon Galaxy, professional staff from the Star Society were there to pick us up at the airport.
Xingxiu will have a special hotel for guests to stay in. The hotel is arranged according to the admission tickets, and three rooms are arranged side by side.
The special manager in a suit and tie left their information, and would be their guide for the entire appreciation meeting. °
"What did you give?" Huo Yan asked.
Ying Chenlin looked at the data board in his hand and said, "It seems to be the schedule of the appreciation meeting."
The Xingxiu Club is the most special and mysterious energy crystal appreciation meeting in the Star Alliance. Rather than an appreciation meeting, it is better to say that this place is an energy crystal trading market that is only circulated among a small number of people. The Xingxiu Club lasts only two days. The first day is the energy crystal trading market hosted by the Xingxiu Club. In this trading market, guests can sell or trade energy crystals. At the same time, there are also trade fairs held by the organizers of the Xingxiu Club in succession with some high-level mercenary mecha divisions.
The next day is the Xingxiu Club's appreciation meeting, which will provide some special supernatural crystal items for guests to compete for.
KID only has 150 million in funds. The supernatural crystals that can be easily auctioned at appreciation meetings are not their goal. Their goal is the first day of the supernatural crystal trading market.
The location chosen by the Xingxiu Club is very special. This special hotel is located on an independent planet of a wealthy man in the Silver Moon Galaxy. The surroundings are quiet and all guests coming and going have undergone strict identity checks. The Xingxiu Club does not have strict dress requirements, but as soon as they enter, they can distinguish who are the capitalists and who are the mecha masters.
The trading market has fixed exhibition booths. Many sellers in the venue have disguised their identities and are surrounded by display cabinets of supernatural crystals.
All the goods are supernatural crystals. S-level supernatural crystals that can be sold for tens of millions in the outside market are everywhere in this fair. KID and his friends passed by several display cabinets, and were slightly deterred when they saw the price tags on the cabinets. These supernatural crystals are good, but they are too expensive.
Lin Yao whispered, "This 150 million is not enough... I can only buy three of those energy crystals and they're gone."
Ying Chenlin took a look at the goods here and felt that the price of the supernatural crystals was a bit high. "The price here seems to be set according to the rarity of the supernatural crystals."
The rarer the energy crystal, the more expensive it is here.
You Su's gaze fell on the distance, "Do you want to go over there and take a look?"
KID and his companions followed You Su and arrived at a new area, where they discovered that all the supernatural crystals in this area were A-grade supernatural crystals.
A-grade supernatural crystals are common, so their prices at the appreciation meeting are cheaper than the same type of supernatural crystals that are sold at inflated prices outside. Ying Chenlin knows that A-grade supernatural crystals are better than S-grade supernatural crystals, so he looks at the supernatural crystals at this stall more carefully.
"I want to see some A-level mutant energy crystals, any of the fire, wood, or water types will do."
Ying Chenlin told the seller, and the other party quickly led him to the corresponding exhibition hall. When he arrived at the place, Ying Chenlin found that there were some special S-level supernatural crystals in the display case.
After a round of looking, Ying Chenlin found quite a few energy crystals that he was satisfied with, but after excluding the issues of price and compatibility, he finally only took a fancy to two energy crystals.
An S-grade wood-attribute green dandelion and an S-grade water-attribute siren.
S-level green dandelion is a wood-type ability, the ability [Flying Flowers]. Its special feature is its control effect. When it blooms, the green fluff will scatter. Pollutants that get contaminated by the green fluff will be paralyzed by the irritation carried by the fluff, causing the person to lose some of their limb control abilities. Furthermore, these fluffs will turn into seeds when they fall to the ground, and will quickly grow into secondary plants of green dandelions... making them very suitable for making large-scale control weapons.
The other S-class water-attributed Siren has the ability [Mirage]. It can control water molecules in the air, turning the water vapor into mist and dispersing or gathering it. When the mist disperses, it can create a mirage effect and resist detection by mecha radars. It is a water-type mirage-type ability crystal.
Although they are common wood and water-type supernatural crystals, unfortunately, these two supernatural crystals are not cheap. The Green Dandelion is priced at 45 million star coins, and the Siren is priced at 38 million.
"It's a bit expensive." Ying Chenlin said, "But the abilities are good."
Ji Qingfeng said, "How can it be expensive? I see that other people are not interested in the supernatural crystals here, so I'll try to talk them over."
Lin Yao said directly: "Chen Lin, Dafeng cut
The price is very strong! You guys go look at other things first, we'll negotiate the price here. ”
KID would not budge on the price, so Ji Qingfeng immediately started arguing with the seller at the counter.
Next to the display case, there were many other special crystals. Ying Chenlin was walking here, and his eyes suddenly fell into the distance. He saw a lot of people standing next to several display cases over there. He walked over with a slightly quicker pace, and just as he stopped, he saw some special crystals randomly placed in a display cabinet in the crowd. Each special crystal was marked with a special pollution value, but there was no price.
From left to right, there are ordinary A-grade, mutated A-grade, and even S-grade supernatural crystals.
"This is a gambling stone field." You Su said.
Ying Chenlin turned around and found You Su standing behind him. "Gambling on stones?"
"It's a name left over from the old Earth era, and it's now used for the supernatural crystals." You Su narrowed his eyes slightly, and his sight swept over the supernatural crystals. "These supernatural crystals are all supernatural crystals that cannot be detected by external institutions. For example, the Qiusuo testing institution you are familiar with cannot detect the supernatural powers of these supernatural crystals. In short, they are pollutant crystals that are not in the Star Alliance pollutant library."
Ying Chenlin paused for a moment after hearing this: "If you don't know about superpowers, then these superpower crystals are useless, right?"
"It can't be detected outside, but Xingxiu Club can." You Su's eyes fell on the distance, "There is a special machine in Xingxiu Club, which is said to be made using a certain S-level mutant energy crystal. The machine cannot determine the subordinate of the pollutant, but can stimulate the energy crystal to react with energy."
Ying Chenlin was stunned. He had never heard of this before.
Stimulate a supernatural reaction... ? He gently grasped the storage device around his neck, thinking of those S-level energy crystals whose affiliations were unknown.
"But the cost of asking Xingxiu to test is extremely high. The higher the level, the more expensive it is. It may even exceed the price of these energy crystals themselves. Buying these energy crystals for testing will most likely be a loss." You Su's eyes fell on the man who was buying inside, "But it doesn't stop some people from liking to take risks."
Ying Chenlin saw at a glance a blond man standing in front of the counter. The man was wearing a coat casually, but his inner clothes were still combat uniforms. It was obvious that he was a mecha technician. At this moment, he was picking and choosing at the counter and picked out several energy crystals.
"Norbert, stop playing." A man wearing the same color combat uniform as him said, "You bought 10 and just tested them. They are all useless."
The blond man said, "I'll try again."
The prices of the supernatural crystals in the counter are indeed cheap... Ying Chenlin watched the other party's actions, and for some reason he suddenly saw a supernatural crystal in the counter that was glowing red. The red light on it was a little dim, much dimmer than other supernatural crystals, and it was not conspicuous on the counter.
From a professional point of view, the level of this energy crystal would not be too high.
But for some reason, Ying Chenlin felt that the light of that supernatural crystal looked a little familiar.
The author has something to say:
Wow, I'm late. The updates have been getting later and later recently.
If you can't wait until 8 o'clock, please come at 10 o'clock. I will change the update time.
I don't have any drafts saved, so I really can't guarantee the update time. I'll write faster when inspiration strikes, and I'll write later when I'm not feeling well. I'll try my best to adjust!
100 red envelopes dropped in this chapter (sorry QAQ)
There are about two chapters left in the appreciation meeting, and then we will enter the ranking competition!
————————
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
