Chapter 194 Settlement
The largest training ground inside the main base was used as the award ceremony venue.
There are some decorations in the venue, but the overall style is still mechanical and simple.
At most, there will be some virtual holographic projections to create the atmosphere of the entire ceremony.
As one of the biggest events for the special profession of Mecha Master, all deep space fleets, ruins, key mining stars, and stationed troops on resource stars can simultaneously receive the online live broadcast of the award ceremony.
Moreover, for the participating mecha divisions that entered the top 100 in the second round, their fleets also arranged holographic projections of the mecha team leader and captain to watch the ceremony on site.
There are also some main ships operating in the surrounding areas, and all the mecha divisions and quasi-mecha divisions on board will be on rotation to watch the ceremony.
Of course, many interested auxiliary personnel and mechanics will also come.
Of course, this arrangement will only be made for fleets that have hopes of entering the top ten.
If there is no hope of making the top ten, the most you can do is send representatives to watch the ceremony. After all, it would be embarrassing if too many people went and ended up not getting any prizes.
Anyway, there were quite a few spectators on site, including the rotating personnel of the main body of the border star and the personnel of the surrounding main ships, which added up to more than 100,000 people, which was quite a lot.
After all, this is an era that emphasizes large-scale mecha battles. Minus the mecha division group, the total number of auxiliary personnel on rotation is this many, which is already more than enough.
But it's no wonder. After all, this involves the defense of an entire area surrounding the planet. Without this number, it would take a lot of effort to maintain the equipment in various locations.
After all, no matter how convenient robots are, they cannot do everything, not to mention that in this environment, the effectiveness of robots is infinitely weakened.
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When everyone arrived this time, the beautiful AI projection host who was in charge of presenting the awards guided everyone to rearrange their seats.
When sitting down, Li Yi found that everyone's seats were different.
He is the number one on the mecha division's side, number two is Jiang Chaoqun, number three is Ning Feiyu, number four is Liang Zhishen, number five is Xu Weilu, number six is Lei Guangyao of the Kunlun ship, number seven is Tan Haode, number eight is Lin Xiu of the Shura ship, number nine is Hu Yitong, and number ten is Long Jinchan of the Taishan ship.
Seeing this, Li Yi knew who the top ten were.
He didn't expect that the final result was so similar to what he had predicted, and Liang Zhishen's ranking was actually quite high.
It seems that the corresponding knowledge obtained in the Vision Spire is of great value.
Li Yi understood this after a little thought.
Although he had passed through higher levels of the Vision Spire, the corresponding knowledge insights given by the Vision Spire were also different due to the huge differences in the two sides' cracking methods.
As for the corresponding knowledge obtained by other spires, when they and Li Yi summarized and compiled them into corresponding knowledge manuals, there was not much complementarity.
But even so, each person's individual tower-breaking experience and the knowledge gained still helped these people win a lot of points.
The rest of the top ten were basically taken by the top five in the second round.
Because the top ten in the second round also have basic points, and the higher the ranking, the higher the points, so as long as you have a little gain, it is easy to squeeze into the top ten.
Among the top ten in the three rounds, except for Li Yi's group, only Long Jinchan was not in the top five in the second round, but ranked eighth.
It can be seen that what Long Jinchan obtained must be quite valuable.
The reason why Ning Feiyu was able to rank third in the three rounds was probably because of his high basic score in the second round, plus the things he discovered in Binglongchuan were indeed ancient and of considerable value.
Li Yi listened attentively to the idle chatter of the people around him, and roughly understood other people's strategies, which were basically looking for mineral stars.
They even fought for the mining star.
Except for him and Ning Feiyu, all the others who made it into the top ten had found mining stars.
Among them, Lei Guangyao had the most thrilling experience. He searched around but found nothing. It was not until the last day when he passed by Planet 7 that he suddenly had an idea and went down to explore. He actually discovered a rare mineral and almost didn't make it into the top ten.
In addition, among the top ten ships that came from regional leading ships, only Lei Guangyao from Kunlun and Long Jinchan from Taishan were from the latter.
Several other regional leading ships, the Changbai, Taihang and Wuse, did not make it into the top ten.
This is a relatively rare result in recent years.
After all, Li Yi's move led five people in the group to the top ten, which is indeed rare.
Outside the top ten, Teng Juli is 13th, Zhang Pengting is 19th, and Lin Xiaohu is 23rd.
After all, they also had participation points for discovering relics and points for killing enemies, so their overall ranking was not low.
Everyone was not surprised to see the seating arrangement, because the news that Li Yi's group had found the heritage ruins had spread everywhere in the past few hours, and anyone with hearing ability could have heard the news.
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Inside the Yao Chi ship, Chen Qiongzhi, who was training the special class, suddenly seemed to remember something and said:
"Okay, today is half a day off, let's all go."
The remaining few people were puzzled: "What's wrong with the instructor?"
Cai Xiaodong was shocked:
"Fuck, aren't you guys paying attention to the news on the internal network? Li Yi from our class has made it into the top ten of the second round of the Youth Mecha Master Competition. Today is the last day to announce the results. The instructor must be going to watch the live broadcast."
"Everyone knows that Li Yi was taught by Instructor Chen."
Tan Haoran said with a smile: "You guys are acting like the new generation of martial arts fanatics. Li Yi is a great master who has ascended from our class. It would be unreasonable for us not to pay attention to him. Come on, stop practicing and go watch the live broadcast. It should be starting soon."
Zheng Xueyuan walked away from her two sisters, approached Pharmacist Wan, and winked, "Sister Wan, you haven't seen your brother Yi for almost two and a half months, do you miss him?"
Yao Shiwan turned her head away and said, "You can think of it yourself, but I didn't think of it at all."
As he spoke, he quickly packed up his things, as if he was preparing to leave for something urgent.
Zheng Xueyuan grabbed Pharmacist Wan's wrist and said with a smile: "Sister Wan, I didn't expect that you would say one thing and mean another. Let's go, let's go watch the live broadcast together. It's too boring for you to watch it alone."
Yaoshi Wan found that Zheng Xueyuan was quite powerful and could not break free for a while. Of course, she did not want to force it, so she said, "Okay, then call everyone to come together, Zuo Ying, Cai Xiaodong, Tan Haoran... Well, call Zhang Xuqiang as well."
Zheng Xueyuan's eyes curved immediately as she said, "Since your sister Wan has spoken, I don't think anyone would not come."
Sun Duxiu ran over from a distance and shouted, "Damn it! You didn't call me when something good happened. Go, go, go. Have you forgotten me, the big tough guy, so quickly?"
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At the venue.
The beautiful girl who calls herself Xiao Que began to speak the opening words of the ceremony:
"…The third round of the finals of the 142nd Youth Mecha Master Competition hosted by Border Star was completely completed half an hour ago."
"In this competition, all ten teams have achieved something."
"Li Yi, the mecha master from the Yao Chi ship, used his keen insight and precise vision to quickly find the Zheng mining planet that was eroded by the ideological stamp in the past data, and solved the Zheng chaos in one fell swoop. He also discovered the key target for mankind for the first time, the heritage ruins!"
"Moreover, he has repeatedly led the team to kill powerful enemies, and even united the entire team to perform a counterattack and kill an A-class mecha!"
"He gave excellent command and made accurate judgments throughout the entire process. He is truly a role model for young mecha masters of the new era."
"Now please call Yao Chi ship mecha master, Li Yi!"
Li Yi walked up to the podium slowly, smiling all the way.
Ever since he felt the spiritual breakthrough brought about by the unity of everyone, his attitude towards this kind of thing has also changed.
As he walked along just now, he found that the audience members in the audience had not participated in the carnival a few hours ago. He immediately understood that He Guangzhi's move was also intended to let the rotating personnel experience this historic moment.
Walking onto the stage, the cute little girl handed the microphone to Li Yi with a smile.
"Mechanic Master Li, please say a few words."
Li Yi took it and glanced at the people below the stage. His mind suddenly recalled the memory of struggling to survive in the tree shed area on Mars when he was young, and relying on his adopted brothers and sisters for life.
And with the help of Xiaoyu's family, he gradually gained a foothold and awakened his talent in the Dream Plain.
Unexpectedly, it has only been over half a year to get to this point.
However, because he had experienced too much during this period of time and absorbed countless fragments of memory, he actually felt as if he was in another world.
The hopeful faces that flashed before his eyes seemed to coincide with the faces he had seen in the past.
There were also people who, although not at the scene, seemed to see those people who came in advance to watch the live broadcast on the distant screen port.
Thinking of this, the expression on Li Yi's face couldn't help but soften.
He said:
“To be able to stand in this position today, I would like to thank all the people who have helped me along the way.”
"Among these people, there is Commander Lin Guotao, who gave me a place on the Yao Chi ship. He provided a lot of help and advice, which saved me a lot of detours."
"With Instructor Chen Qiongzhi, she laid the most solid foundation for me as a mecha master, allowing me to grow faster and seeing what a real mecha master should be like."
"With Coach Liang Zhishen, as my teammate, he has been stable and reliable all the way, thoughtful and a stabilizer in the team, making up for my shortcomings."
These three people have been important figures to him in the past six months, serving as both teachers and friends.
As a rookie mecha master, he had a lot to learn from his seniors.
"I am also grateful to my teammates in the special class, the gentle and reliable Yao Shiwan, the strong and reliable Tan Haoran, the courageous and optimistic Sun Duxiu, the steady and solid Zhang Xuqiang, the smart and lovely Zheng Xueyuan, the sharp and optimistic Zuo Ying, and the entertaining Cai Xiaodong."
"I would also like to thank my current teammates. They are in the audience and their names should be on the list later. I won't bother thinking of too many adjectives to introduce them."
At this point, Li Yi smiled slightly, and the audience below also laughed in good faith.
"There are many others I want to thank, such as Commander Mo Chenlong, Commander Mu Tianlei, Commander Lin Wendong, etc., who all provided a lot of help. There are also my opponents, Ning Feiyu, Yu Longhui... Li Yi read out the names that he remembered, and had a good impression of. "
As for Sai Yizheng, Fang Zhilong and others encountered on the Kunlun ship, they will naturally not be mentioned.
After all, the impression is not good.
"Finally, I would like to thank all the warriors present here. I am one of you, and you have also created the future of mankind."
"I may not be able to call out your names, but I remember everyone's face."
"I hope that one day in the future, we can meet in a quiet and beautiful city street, or in a lush green field, or in a vast and majestic planet, and we can smile at each other and share the peace and beauty of mankind."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
After saying that, Li Yi bowed, then handed the microphone to Xiao Queai and turned to leave the stage.
Xiao Queai originally wanted to ask a few more questions, but she didn't expect Li Yi to run so fast and leave in a flash. She couldn't catch him, so she had to give up.
There was a moment of silence, followed by thunderous applause from the audience.
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On the Yao Chi ship, a group of seven people were watching the live broadcast on the screen. On the page, a close-up of Li Yi's face appeared on the screen.
Cai Xiaodong slapped his thigh and said, "Fuck, what do you mean by entertaining Cai Xiaodong? Does Li Yi mean that my only role is to be funny?"
Sun Duxiu laughed so hard that he gasped and said with his belly full of laughter:
"Cai Xiaodong, Li Yi's evaluation of you is consistent with your image, isn't it?"
Cai Xiaodong said angrily, "Damn it! I'm obviously a classic tough guy from Setan. How can my main role be to be funny? How will the other girls in the class look at me now?"
Zheng Xueyuan said with a smile: "Brother Xiaodong, stop struggling. When you become a high-level mecha master, you will be able to get rid of this title."
Pharmacist Wan looked at Zheng Xueyuan, and with a smile, she placed her hand on Zheng Xueyuan's shoulder. Then, she touched her delicate, pink neck with her fingertips and poked it, with an unchanged expression:
"Sister Xueyuan, I didn't expect Brother Yi to describe you as cute."
Zheng Xueyuan suddenly felt a chill in her heart. Yes, Sister Wan's evaluation of her was actually gentleness, and there was no other comment about her appearance.
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The next people to speak were Jiang Chaoqun and Ning Feiyu.
According to the conference protocol, each of the top ten people will need to answer some questions from Xiaoqueai and make a speech.
The whole speech will be very dry, so Xiaoqueai will ask some funny questions according to the situation to liven up the atmosphere.
They didn't say much, and each of them expressed some thanks.
Jiang Chaoqun naturally emphasized his gratitude to Li Yi. After all, although he had good ability, he had no hope of entering the top ten this time and could only wait until the next session.
But this time we achieved the goal ahead of schedule, so naturally I am most grateful.
It is worth mentioning that Ning Feiyu also emphasized his gratitude to Li Yi. He mentioned the last battle in the heritage ruins and frankly admitted the fact that he was defeated and let go by Li Yi.
This also triggered a lot of applause from the audience.
The applause was, firstly, to show respect to Ning Feiyu for boldly admitting the victory and defeat that no one had spread, and secondly, to show respect to Li Yi, who was indeed the best performer in this competition. Both in terms of reputation and results, he had the demeanor of a great general.
For a moment, there was thunderous applause in the arena again.
In terms of regular award ceremonies, the first prize is usually awarded last to maintain suspense until the end.
But the Mecha Master Competition is different, or rather, the Mecha Master community has never had this tradition. They have always been the first to take the first prize and the first to speak.
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The last person to go on stage and speak was He Guangzhi. This old fox appeared on stage from nowhere.
He took the microphone and said with a smile:
"This competition will be the most successful one among the past 140 competitions."
“It will also be the most significant one in the history of mankind.”
“Many legendary chapters will be engraved in this year.”
"I am very happy to witness this moment that changed the course of history. I also hope that all the soldiers present will continue to maintain their determination to overcome all difficulties and embrace the future that is about to change."
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After the ceremony, Li Yi’s military achievements and prizes had been distributed, waiting for him to collect them.
The reward for the contest is 100,000 yuan, one B-level divine weapon of your choice, and three A-level divine cores of your choice.
In addition, the matter of reporting the cult's hiding place two months ago has also been basically completed, and military merits were given at the same time, a total of 30,000 military merits.
If it was just a report, there wouldn't be so many military merits, only one or two thousand at most.
The hidden locations reported contained a lot of important materials, and also revealed the fact that some people within the Border Star Supervisory Department had been corrupted and transformed, so the credit was considerable.
It's not bad to earn 30,000 military merits just by talking.
Liang Zhishen, who ran errands, also got 8,000 military merits, which was not bad.
There is another part, which is hundreds of divine mechas in the southern ruins, which are worth more than 6 million military merits.
An S-class divine mecha, with a starting value of 300,000 military merits.
A-level divine mecha, starting from 100,000 combat merits.
B-level divine mecha, starting from 50,000 combat merits.
For a complete divine core, the price is halved.
The value of the divine core of a divine creature is halved.
If someone is wearing a divine weapon, the value will increase by 20% to 40%.
Since Li Yi was the first discoverer, after deducting the action fees of several Heavenly Rank members, management fees, etc., the share of teammates, etc., he still earned 700,000 military merits, which is a huge sum of money.
He was also the first to discover the truth about the Drifting Mecha Regiment, and he was also the first to find the delivery box, which prevented the continuous sending of messages. There were also other combat miscellaneous matters, etc.
Although this kind of value is difficult to calculate, the main base is very generous. In addition to the comprehensive combat, after deducting the A-level and B-level mecha cores that Li Yi got in advance, this part also accounted for 40,000 military merits, which is not bad.
As for the knowledge gained from the previous exploration of the spire, it has been compiled into a knowledge manual and used as the basis for winning awards, and it will no longer be converted into military merit.
All in all, he obtained a total of 870,000 military merits, one B-level divine weapon, five A-level divine cores (two captured in battle + three as rewards), and six B-level divine cores.
The other members of the group also gained something. The overall income was around 100,000 to 50,000 yuan, which is also a good income.
Because the largest divine mecha hangar was not discovered by the other members of the team, and it was also thanks to the intervention of the Heavenly Rank that it was successfully taken, so they did not get much from it.
Among them, Jiang Chaoqun had the highest income of 130,000 yuan.
In the previous battles, he was the main force against strong opponents, and his exploration progress was also good. He did not get the divine core, so his overall benefits were second only to Li Yi.
According to Li Yi's subsequent conversation with Ning Feiyu, her earnings were okay, but since it was not a heritage relic, her gains were discounted, to only 120,000 military merits.
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At the end of the ceremony, He Guangzhi seemed to have more to say.
Not many people can understand the meaning of this, and Li Yi is one of them.
He knew that in addition to the heritage relics, there was also another secret excavation that He Guangzhi had mentioned to him before.
After the ceremony is over and the proceeds are settled.
Li Yi went to He Guangzhi's office alone.
The office is on the eighth floor of the control tower.
Li Yi followed the guidance of the navigation AI and soon arrived in front of He Guangzhi's office.
Standing in front of the door, he stopped and thought about how to communicate with He Guangzhi next.
(End of this chapter)