Chapter 77 Rejection

"How many moves?"

Chen Qiongzhi looked Li Yi up and down and said with a smile:

"You want to get back at me? Haha, I'm not afraid to tell you that I haven't used my full strength yet."

Li Yi also smiled: "I still say the same thing. I just hope that when the instructor and I practice moves, we can be more relaxed."

These two sentences set the tone and we began to get back to the topic.

Chen Qiongzhi pondered and said:

"Tell me about some of the things you discovered. In short, the person you saw was not me, but he did have a relationship with me. As for the details of this relationship, I can only tell you that it is not a wonderful relationship."

"In the short term, those things will not affect your subsequent exploration of the ruins. You just need to know this."

"Also, since you have already entered the fourth level in another way and have made much more progress than other groups, I will also give you a more difficult task."

"That is to use all your wisdom to discover as many secrets as possible about this relic."

Li Yi was slightly startled and said, "I don't quite understand what the instructor means."

"It's okay, I'll explain it to you carefully."

Chen Qiongzhi smiled and said:

"The Tianshu ruins you are exploring now, among the ruins I have seen, explored, and developed, its potential value cannot be said to be ranked in the top three, but it should be ranked in the top five."

"Although you are still young, your value in exploring the ruins has been noticed by many high-ranking officials on the ship."

"I hope you can concentrate on preparing for the exploration in two months and do your best to improve yourself. It would be best if you can condense six divine genes, which means you can become a senior first-level evolver."

“When you have the power, you can gain enough say from the advance team and dominate the entire exploration process.”

"Don't be afraid of those mid-level evolvers, even though they are very powerful."

"But not as smart as you."

"Of course, it's not that they aren't smart, but they're certainly not as smart as you."

"After all, they started exploring a month earlier than you did, and their strength is much stronger than yours, but you have basically caught up with their progress."

"In fact, if it weren't for the clues you found, the progress might have been even worse."

Having said that, Chen Qiongzhi curled the corners of his mouth slightly, with a hint of disdain in his eyes.

Li Yi shrugged. It seemed that Chen Qiongzhi had some small personal grudges with some people in the advance team.

Chen Qiongzhi continued:

“Once you become a leader or even a major contributor to exploration, the benefits you will receive later will be immeasurable.”

"The divine mecha upgrades, the hidden technologies in the ruins, the special mecha equipment, and the divine weapons may all be hidden in the deeper levels."

"Correspondingly, there will be military merits, bonuses, special resources, confidential information, and upgraded permissions. These will also come with it."

“There are even more benefits than what you can see with your naked eye.”

"Your reputation will also spread throughout the deep space fleet."

"You will also be reported by the entire deep space fleet's propaganda machine and recognized by the headquarters. You will be given a golden body to protect you, which will make you less afraid of the attacks of villains, the plots of evil cults, and unknown conspiracies before you grow up. Do you understand?"

Li Yi was surprised and asked, "Leading the development of a ruins will give such a huge reputation bonus?"

Chen Qiongzhi smiled and said, "If you perform mediocrely when leading the development, with no achievements or mistakes, at most you will be given some experience points, which is a resume that is neither good nor bad."

"If you only perform slightly well and your exploration results are slightly outstanding but not much, then you will only get a small reward in terms of military merit and bonuses."

"But if you have experience in cracking the divine light bullet detection system and seizing divine light bullets, or even discovering technologies that humans have not yet mastered, or even various divine armaments, divine weapons, divine equipment, or various strategic-level items, it will become a highlight in your book of merit."

"When these accumulate, you will be praised by the headquarters, reported by the propaganda machine, and known by the deep space fleet."

Li Yi was puzzled and said, "But, these sound like huge responsibilities and burdens, right? Why would the instructor specifically let a rookie like me take on these responsibilities? If I mess up, wouldn't it be a waste of this precious opportunity?"

Chen Qiongzhi smiled and asked, "Then do you have confidence?"

"Our current strength is close to the limit. I don't think I can handle such a big thing now."

Li Yi told the truth.

Chen Qiongzhi looked at Li Yi deeply and said:

"Isn't your subtext that if you change to a stronger combination of strength, you can do it?"

Li Yi still shook his head:

"Even if we gather all the experts in the special class, it still won't be enough. Some difficulties cannot be overcome by taking shortcuts. The further down you go, the harder it gets."

"So, if you can deploy the advance team, or even the three instructors of our special class, and the standing team during the field exploration?"

“Isn’t this a bit too big?”

Li Yi said in surprise.

"If you were given this authority, do you think you could do it?"

"Instructor, this is not a question of whether I can do it or not, but my strength and qualifications are not yet worthy of this responsibility."

Li Yi thought for a moment and said seriously:

"With such a heavy responsibility, if I make even the slightest mistake, the backlash I have to bear will be enormous. To be frank, I am currently unable to do such a high-risk thing, even if the benefits are incredibly high."

"Therefore, even if you put the command of these people in my hands, I will refuse this matter."

Chen Qiongzhi did not respond to Li Yi's words immediately. After a moment of silence, she said, "Okay, it seems that I am too anxious. You go down first."

Li Yi turned and left.

Unfortunately, seeing Chen Qiongzhi's condition, the plan to practice some skills had to go through the roof for the time being.

I can only come back to check the situation in a few days.

But Li Yi didn't regret it.

If the situation becomes extremely critical, he will be in big trouble if he doesn't resist.

He would definitely not hesitate and stand up immediately.

But now there are so many tall people above my head, there is no need to take such a big risk and take on such a big thing.

There is no certainty in the future, if you lose, you lose everything.

He is humble and has little influence. He has a say in the group, but when it comes to higher levels, he is still weak and cannot afford the cost of losing.

Still need to get stronger.

"Condensing six divine genes in two months? Then let's finish this first and strive to have a higher say during the trip to the ruins."

…

As soon as he walked out of the training hall, Li Yi found that several members of the group were standing at the door.

"Hey, you guys, why are you all standing here?"

"Hehe, to celebrate our entry into the fourth round, which basically secures the victory of Class Three, I suggest that we find a small restaurant and have a small celebration. How about that?"

Pharmacist Wan came over.

"Don't we have training this afternoon?"

"Yes, I know you will definitely stay for extra practice after the training camp ends this afternoon, so how about we use the one and a half hour break at noon to complete this small celebration?"

Li Yi looked around at the crowd and saw that everyone's faces were full of anticipation, so he smiled and said, "It seems that if I refuse, you will rush over and carry me over, which is too embarrassing. I will just give in to you."

Cai Xiaodong said, "Okay, okay, pass it on. Li Yi said he wants to follow Pharmacist Wan."

Pharmacist Wan scolded: "From your sister, it seems like I am forcing Li Yi. Do you understand voluntarily?"

Cai Xiaodong shouted, "Li Yi, did you see that? This is Yao Shiwan's true nature. You better be careful."

Everyone burst into laughter.

Pharmacist Wan coughed lightly and said:

"I've already booked the restaurant. It's in cabin 8. As for the flying car, I've already called it over."

As soon as the words fell.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The high-speed airflow rushed past everyone.

Turn around and look.

It was an 8-meter-long pure black business-style medium-sized car that suddenly flew over and suddenly stopped.

"Fuck, is Yaoshi Wan so rich that she can just shout out for a high-end flying car that can cross the vacuum and is exempt from cross-cabin inspection?"

Sun Duxiu was shocked.

Pharmacist Wan smiled and said, "Fortunately, fortunately, our family has a little influence on the ship."

Everyone got on the speeding car amidst all kinds of envious and jealous looks.

As soon as I got into the car, I was greeted by the fresh and natural air, the comfortable and warm seats, and the spacious space...

Sun Duxiu became more and more envious, his mouth almost drooling:

"Oh shit, this kind of inter-star flying car, even if the starship is destroyed, can still travel a short distance to the nearest planet, right? Yaoshi Wan, how many star coins does this car cost?"

Pharmacist Wan thought for a while and said, "More than a billion star coins, that's two years of interest income."

"???"

Tan Haoran sighed:

"The Quan Clan is different from the Quan Clan before. For a small lower-ranking Quan Clan like us, we would be extremely happy if we could have a net profit of 10 million star coins a year."

Cai Xiaodong was even more envious:

"For a poor family like us who are from a lower-ranking clan, we have to be thankful if we can earn 200,000 or 300,000 a year. You have to know that on our planet Saitan, 10,000 star coins are enough to live comfortably for several months."

Sun Duxiu slapped his thigh repeatedly, looked at the pharmacist and said:

"Pharmacist Wan, I admit that I underestimated you in the past. From today on, I hope you can give me a chance to start over. I don't ask for too much, just invest a few million star coins in me every month. When I become a mid-level mecha master, I will pay you back tenfold!"

"It's several million per month, which means tens of millions per year. Given your family's situation, I'm afraid you can't make that much money even if you become a mid-level mecha master."

The pharmacist shook his head and said:

"Unless you are willing to sign a contract for 70 to 80 years, or bet on the time it will take you to be promoted to a high-level mecha master."

Sun Duxiu scratched his head and said, "Forget it. Both the long-term contract and the bet don't seem to be very good."

Li Yi was slightly amused and said, "Sun Duxiu, with your talent, as long as you work hard to become a high-ranking or even a heavenly mecha master, you will definitely receive a lot of money. There is no need to be so envious."

Sun Duxiu said: "The problem is that when I become a high-level mecha master, I won't need so much money."

Yao Shiwan shook her head and said, "No, you will want money more, unless you don't want to make progress."

As they were chatting and laughing, the car passed through cabin 12 and flew straight to cabin 8.

It is worth mentioning.

After the flying car flew into the vacuum environment, the windows immediately turned dark, automatically blocking out the outside world.

Pharmacist Wan explained:

"Because we don't have enough authority, although we can use the flying car to reach the vacuum, we are not allowed to observe or record the external information of the starship. Therefore, the flying car will automatically block this information."

Li Yi thought: "That is to say, only if there is a high-authority person in the car, this scene will not be blocked?"

The pharmacist said:

"If the person is level 4, and the person traveling with him has a lower level of authority, he should also be blocked. Only when someone above level 5 is present will it not be blocked."

Li Yi nodded slightly. This measure was quite strict.

…

In the blink of an eye, 5 minutes later, the flying car had landed on the balcony apron of a high-rise building in cabin 8.

In addition to Yao Shiwan's car, there were seven or eight other cars parked in other locations, but they were all smaller than Yao Shiwan's.

Yao Shi Wan took everyone to a restaurant with Earth-style cuisine.

The interior decoration is low-key and luxurious, with exquisite and beautiful dragon and phoenix patterns, and it is quite tasteful.

Most of the waiters are bionic robots.

The few real people are also sweet women and handsome men.

Yaoshi Wan said, "This restaurant not only tastes very authentic, but also has very good soundproofing in its private rooms. The waiters are also very considerate and will not easily come in and disturb us."

Sun Duxiu was surprised and said: "It tastes very authentic... Are you implying that you have been to Earth?"

Pharmacist Wan nodded and said, "Indeed, I have been there. What happened?"

Sun Duxiu was shocked and said, "Damn, you have actually been to such a noble planet. It seems that I still underestimated your strength."

After entering the interstellar age, the status of the Earth, the mother planet of mankind, has become extremely respected.

Ordinary people dare not even think about entering the earth.

Ordinary powerful people would just give it a thought at most.

The higher-ups may not be able to obtain an Earth visa if they do not have certain connections and channels.

Moreover, even if you obtain an Earth visa, there are still many restrictions and the places you can go are limited.

Cai Xiaodong is from Setan and has a relatively shallow understanding of the Earth. He knows that it is awesome, but he doesn’t know how awesome it is.

He quickly asked, "What does it mean to be able to go to Earth?"

Zhang Xuqiang rarely interrupted the conversation and replied, "It is said that there is a huge ancient civilization relic hidden inside the earth, which has not yet been deciphered."

"In addition, most of the first batch of top mecha masters of mankind settled on Earth. Most of them are of heavenly rank and extremely powerful."

"Most of humanity's large-scale virtual reality mother machines are also hidden on Earth. These mother machines record the essence of countless human knowledge and are of inestimable value."

"The Deep Space Fleet's main command center, the First Star Gate, is located inside the Earth."

"besides……"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Zhang Xuqiang demonstrated the importance of the earth from various angles, and it was rare for him to say it all at once.

This immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Li Yi smiled and said, "You know a lot."

Zhang Xuqiang nodded slightly: "Because my great-grandfather was an immigrant from Earth, he had talked about wanting to go back to his hometown countless times, but unfortunately, once he left that door, he could never go back."

Everyone was silent.

Li Yi said at the right time: "It's a rare occasion to celebrate, so let's not talk about these sad topics. Let's talk about how to beat the fourth level later."

"At the same time, I have another idea. If we are blocked at the fourth level, why don't we try to dismantle the launcher of the divine light bomb during the last minute? So that we can accumulate experience for the next field capture?"

Cai Xiaodong slammed the table and said, "That makes sense. The advance team may not have the technology to dismantle it. During this period of time, perhaps we can look up more information and learn some techniques that can be used as reference. Then, maybe we can make some more money."

Sun Duxiu's eyes lit up: "This is a good idea, I agree! Moreover, the value of a special divine weapon like the Divine Light Bullet must be higher if it is captured in reality!"

Yao Shi Wan also nodded slightly and said, "Yes, there are quite a few Broken Divine Light Bullets obtained from different ruins. They are basically destroyed in order to force a clearance. We may be able to check more of this information for reference."

The topic was diverted and everyone became excited again.

Originally, Li Yi was planning to mention the sharing of the clue fee.

But considering that this included the clue fees for two explorations, some newcomers were not included, and it was not convenient to discuss it in this situation, so we gave up.

After the chat, everyone talked about their past lives and backgrounds.

After this meal, everyone was very relaxed.

They became more familiar with each other and less alienated from each other.

Harmony during battle and harmony in daily life are two different things after all.

This celebration brought many people closer together.

…

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

On the training ground, as luck would have it, today was Li Yi and Zheng Xuefei's turn for actual combat training.

The moment Zheng Xuefei saw the battle information, she was overjoyed and ran to Li Yi and said, "Li Yi, I didn't expect that you and I are so destined to be together. How about we make a bet?"

"What's the bet?"

"You are so strong now, even unfathomable. If I can hold out for one minute under your hands, you will tell me your secret clearance information."

"If I can't make it, I'll give you Xueyuan for free. What do you think? Is it a good deal?"

Li Yi said speechlessly: "Your calculations are really good."

Zheng Xuefei pretended to be dumbfounded and said, "No, I don't have an abacus. This is something that is hundreds of years old."

"Do you think that if you can hold on for one minute, you will definitely win? And even if you lose, Xueyuan is in our team anyway, so it doesn't matter whether we give up or not?"

Zheng Xuefei said coquettishly: "Then you decide whether to gamble or not."

Li Yi took a step back and said:

"Although you look OK and have a nice voice, your manners are still a bit greasy. I suggest you change them next time."

Zheng Xuefei's face turned dark.

Li Yi smiled and said:

"However, you can gamble, but I want to change the conditions of the bet."

Zheng Xuefei's eyes lit up, she stretched out her slender fingers to stroke the ends of her hair, and said charmingly: "You say, if it were you, even if it was a gift package for the three sisters, it would not be impossible."

Li Yi: "...I heard that your Zheng family is rich in various rare minerals. I want to bet two portions of fluorite ore essence. Do you have any?"

"Fluorite ore essence?"

Zheng Xuefei tilted her head and thought for a moment: "Yes, there is, but this thing is a controlled item. You need level 3 authority to hold it on the ship. Are you sure you have the authority to take this?"

Li Yi said:

"You have it, that's enough. We can sign a contract first. When I get the third level authority, I'll ask you for it."

Zheng Xuefei nodded and said, "That's fine, let's sign the contract."

"Speaking of which, although this mineral essence is not too expensive, it is not a very common item. What do you want to do here?"

Li Yi smiled and said, "It's not convenient to reveal this, you can also guess."

"No thanks. I can never guess what a man is thinking, especially someone like you. I can never guess it."

Zheng Xuefei grumbled.

The reason why Li Yi needed this was mainly because he had taken time to investigate the deeds of Chenliu Wang Wusheng while resting in the dormitory recently.

He couldn't find more detailed information on the intranet, so he tried to visit the websites of various large museums, history halls, and libraries to search for relevant information.

As a result, there was a discovery.

A document records that a portion of fluorite ore was placed in the tomb of Chenliu King Wusheng.

Because this thing was very different from ordinary burial objects, it aroused his curiosity.

It was a coincidence today, so I just asked casually.

I didn't expect that there really was one in Zheng Xuefei's family.

…

Some people also gathered under the fighting stage.

After all, it is a competition among the top ten masters, so it is quite eye-catching.

Of course, Li Yi’s current ranking is still 18th, but due to a series of achievements and amazing performance in ruins strategies, he is unanimously regarded as a top ten master.

In fact, it is one of the best.

"Did you hear about Zheng Xuefei's bet?"

"Interesting. I didn't expect Zheng Xuefei to admit that she was inferior to Li Yi without even fighting. As long as she could hold on for one minute, she would be considered the winner. And Li Yi actually admitted this."

"It seems that in the eyes of those masters, Li Yi is indeed someone they can stand shoulder to shoulder with."

"This is outrageous. He is obviously just a newcomer who has been on the ship for less than two months."

"Yes, others have been on board for two months and are probably still training in the standing squadron. They still have to wait for an opportunity to join the special squadron."

"Now it depends on how long it will take Li Yi to deal with Zheng Xuefei."

"Zheng Xuefei is very proficient in divine skills. If she attacks with all her strength right from the start, Li Yi may not be in an easy situation."

"That's right, Li Yi is not without the risk of capsizing in the ditch."

…

On stage.

Zheng Xuefei controls the D-level Hercules sequence and the Ba Yu mecha and appears on the stage calmly.

This is a huge yellow mecha that is 42 meters tall, almost the same height as the Pluto mecha, but obviously more sturdy in size.

Its arms, calves, and forehead are covered with black lines, and its head armor is thick and solid, making it look quite domineering.

It’s just that the style of this painting is very different from Zheng Xuefei’s real appearance.

This time, Li Yi's startup time was slightly improved by ten seconds compared to the last time, totaling 11 minutes and forty seconds.

In a look of expectation.

The two began to move.

The Tyrant Feather mecha activated its divine skill right from the start, increasing its divine power! Buzz!!! A low buzzing sound rang out.

Then, the two huge mechas began to collide.

Boom!!! With a loud noise, the air wave rolled up like a small tornado.

There was even a "hissing" sound from the wind pressure collision on the edge of the protective shield.

"Fuck, this is the fist force generated by two powerful mecha masters. Fortunately, the protection level has been raised to level 7, otherwise it would be bad."

The audience exclaimed.

The Pluto Mecha felt the tremendous pressure coming down upon it, but it was not panicked.

With a casual sticky word skill, he pulled the Ba Yu mecha over, and then with quick eyes and hands, he stretched out his hand and used a triple shock, hitting the Ba Yu mecha on the head.

Boom!!! After the loud noise, the Tyrant Feather mecha shook its head and continued to move forward.

Li Yiwei was surprised. The shock resistance of the Ba Yu mecha was really good.

Then let’s change to another one, the word-penetrating technique!

The Pluto Mecha reached out again, cleverly passing through the gap between the two arms of the Tyrant Feather Mecha and hitting it straight on the head.

Boom!!! After facing two consecutive heavy blows to the head, the Tyrant Feather Mech could no longer hold on and fell to the ground.

Everyone was stunned.

Isn't this a huge gap? How come it's like a monkey running around? In the cockpit, Li Yi shook his head and laughed.

If it were any other sequence, he might have had more trouble.

But he is not afraid of the Hercules sequence mecha, even if it is stronger.

There was no other reason. In terms of skills and experience, Zheng Xuefei could not catch up with him even if she practiced for another ten years.

After this battle, Li Yi has completely established himself as one of the top ten masters.

Even in many people's minds, he is already the uncrowned king of the special class.

All he needs is a fight with Fang Tao, and the title of number one in the class will fall completely on him.

Fang Tao did not refute these comments.

As a result, more and more people believe that Li Yi is the strongest in Class 3.

Of course, Fang Tao's reputation has always been weaker than Zhou Huize and Lin Susu, and even Yang Hao in Class 1.

Therefore, there are quite a few people who are not very familiar with Li Yi who would occasionally encourage Li Yi to challenge Zhou Huize and take the real first place.

Li Yi naturally ignored all of this and focused entirely on his own practice.

His goal is not just to dominate the special class.

What's more, Zhou Huize and his men are indeed very strong after years of accumulation.

According to his understanding, these masters, who can rank in the top five in the three selected classes combined, are the elite among the elites.

The divine genes in his body have accumulated to more than 9, just one step away from the median.

Their respective divine skills and mecha skills have also been applied to perfection.

Compared with them, the group of people who are ranked later have a huge gap in strength.

Their combat power is inherently stronger than that of ordinary mid-level evolvers.

Therefore, Li Yi was not sure whether he could really sweep away these people and not fall into the gutter.

At least, we need to gather one more divine gene, reaching 3, to ensure victory, right?

One day three days later.

After drinking a tube of Jingyu No. 1, Li Yi felt his body suddenly shaken! Deep in the gene sequence in his body, another gene sequence was faintly glowing.

"Here it comes, a new divine gene is about to be generated!"

(End of this chapter)