Mo Tianyun was walking through heavy snow on his way here. The 35-kilometer journey was a little tiring, and he was even a bit cold.
On the way home, I skipped and hopped all the way without feeling tired at all, and even the bare tree trunks along the way felt especially familiar.
It usually takes me more than an hour to get home, but now I can get back in less than an hour.
Mo Tianyun's home is in a poor village on the outskirts of the eastern district of Hanshan City.
Mo Tianyun's original home was not here. When Grandpa Xika was still alive, his home was in the East District.
Grandpa Sika is a combat mecha pilot and a mecha mechanic. His repair skills are quite famous throughout Hanshan City.
Mo Tianyun has been learning combat and mecha repair from Grandpa Xika since he was a child. Grandpa Xika especially praised his mecha repair skills.
This is because Mo Tianyun has loved mecha since he was a child, and his biggest dream is to become a renowned mecha pilot who will be known throughout the galaxy. That's why he studies mecha-related technologies so hard.
Mo Tianyun had been looking forward to his future since he was a child.
He dreamed of one day piloting an incredibly cool mecha, flying over places frequented by many people, leaving them with envious glances and admiring voices.
He fantasized about one day being able to control an incredibly powerful mech, wipe out the invading Zerg, and become a peerless hero like Grand Marshal Corey of the Empire.
Wasn't it said that Mo Tianyun's mecha repair skills were amazing?
If Mo Tianyun makes a lot of money repairing mechs for others, how could he not even have enough to eat?
Actually, that's not the case. Imperial regulations stipulate that one must possess a professional certificate to engage in related industries. Anyone who violates the law will face severe consequences, ranging from ten years in prison to the death penalty.
To obtain a professional certificate, one must pass a professional assessment.
If it's a high-end profession like mecha repairman, you have to pay 10,000 star coins before you can take the exam. Mo Tianyun is penniless, where would he get so many star coins?
Moreover, the assessment for mecha repair technicians is extremely difficult; it's very lucky if one out of 100 people passes.
Becoming a mecha mechanic is extremely difficult; not only does it require talent, but the learning process also involves a significant financial investment.
The price of the combat mech parts used in the training and maintenance process alone is beyond the reach of ordinary families, and the assessment fees are just a drop in the ocean compared to that.
The 10,000 Star Coins needed for the assessment can be raised simply by selling some of the items obtained today. With Mo Tianyun's skills, becoming a junior mecha repairman is no problem.
Mo Tianyun has been living in this poor village for almost five years now.
I remember when Mo Tianyun first arrived here, he had nowhere to stay. His so-called home was just a tin shack that had been built little by little over the past few years.
Such tin-roofed houses are not able to keep out strong winds and rains in normal times, nor can they keep warm in winter.
It's the dead of winter now, and every night, Mo Tianyun shivers from the cold while huddled under the covers.
Especially when a blizzard comes, although the tin house is heavy and Mo Tianyun has reinforced it to prevent it from being blown away by the wind, it is certain that Mo Tianyun will shiver in his quilt all night and will not be able to fall asleep.
Mo Tianyun unlocked the door, gently pushed it open, and returned to his familiar little home.
This house was dilapidated and bare.
Aside from the toolbox that Grandpa Sika left him, which he couldn't sell, he had sold almost everything else he brought from his old home. All that was left in the house was a table, a stool, a bed, and a pot; there was no other furniture.
Mo Tianyun opened the space toolbox and took out today's harvest.
A giant sword, a combat mech core, a medium-energy crystal, a mech accessory core, and a metal sphere.
"We've really struck it rich. These are worth at least 200,000 star coins. The most valuable one is the combat mech core, but unfortunately it's damaged. It's worth about 100,000 star coins. The intact ones are worth over a million star coins."
"The giant sword, medium-energy crystals, and mecha component cores add up to 100,000 star coins," Mo Tianyun estimated.
Mo Tianyun looked at the metal sphere and asked with some confusion, "What is this thing? I've never seen it in any books."
Mo Tianyun had read all the books in the school library, but not a single one of them mentioned this metal ball.
"Never mind, it's probably just an ordinary metal ball," Mo Tianyun said, shaking his head.
"This metal ball isn't very big, just a little bigger than my fist, so let's put it on the table."
The table is rectangular.
The table wasn't empty; it had a stack of books and a white rhombus-shaped crystal on it.
This white, rhomboid crystal is the Zerg's crystal core, and it emits a shimmering white light at night.
Mo Tianyun looked at the white rhomboid crystal. The more he stared at it, the more his nose stung with tears.
Before leaving, Grandpa Sika handed the rhombus-shaped crystal to Mo Tianyun and said, "This Zerg crystal core is something I kept when I killed my first Zerg. I kept it as a souvenir, hoping to kill more Zerg in the future. Now I'm giving it to you."
After saying that, Grandpa Sika entered the mecha and soared into the sky.
Since the devastating news arrived, this crystal has become Mo Tianyun's spiritual anchor for Grandpa Sika.
"Grandpa Sika, I learned a lot today. I will never go hungry again."
"My mental level has reached the perception level, and I can pilot a mecha now. This is my biggest achievement today."
"But I almost went to find you, hehe..."
As Mo Tianyun spoke, he wiped his eyes with his hand, sniffed, tilted his head back, blinked, and took a deep breath.
Over the years, Mo Tianyun has developed the habit of talking to this crystal, as if he were talking to Grandpa Sika.
Every holiday, Mo Tianyun would feel extremely envious when he saw other families happily holding hands and going out for fun.
When he was a child, Mo Tianyun felt envious when he heard his peers happily calling out to their parents. But over the years, he has come to accept the fact that he has no parents.
Years later, the pain of losing a loved one struck again, but this time I endured it.
Mo Tianyun vaguely remembered the question he asked Grandpa Xika when he was very young.
"Grandpa, where are my mom and dad? Why haven't they come to see us for so long? Have they abandoned us?"
“How could that be! They went to other planets to earn star coins.” Grandpa Sika said this again.
"But they've never given us any Starcoins! Everything I eat, drink, and use is paid for by you, Grandpa, the money you use to repair my mechs!"
Grandpa Sika frowned, wanting to say something to comfort Xiao Mo Tianyun.
Xiao Mo Tianyun looked at Grandpa Xika with a sly smile and said what he wanted to say: "Why don't I have a mom and dad? Why is my name different from yours? Actually, you picked me up, didn't you?"
After saying this, Xiao Mo Tianyun stared at Grandpa Xika's face, hoping he could provide an answer.
As expected, Grandpa Sika's answer was exactly what Xiao Mo Tianyun had predicted.
“Little Tianyun, you are much smarter than other children. When they were your age, they couldn’t even speak clearly. How could they be as smart as you?”
"But it's good for a man to be smart; he can live a more fulfilling life in this world," Grandpa Sika remarked.
"So that's really how it is. Then I have to thank Grandpa even more. It was Grandpa who gave me a warm home. Without Grandpa, I might have died long ago."
After speaking, Xiao Mo Tianyun hugged Grandpa Xika tightly. Xika didn't say anything, but gently patted Xiao Mo Tianyun's back.
The memory ends, but real time continues to flow slowly.
Mo Tianyun gently placed the metal ball next to the Zerg crystal core.
Mo Tianyun had just placed the metal ball, but what happened next left him at a loss.
A white beam of light appeared between the metal sphere and the Zerg crystal core, and this beam grew brighter and brighter.
The Zerg crystal core turned transparent, and then the crack eventually shattered.
"My crystal core!" Mo Tianyun rushed forward and grabbed a few fragments, his face filled with astonishment.
"What is this metal sphere? It's actually absorbing the white light from inside the crystal core!"
Something that Mo Tianyun never expected happened again.
A white light appeared on the surface of the metal sphere, and then a figure appeared next to Mo Tianyun.
Mo Tianyun was startled, and when he turned his gaze to the figure, he was completely stunned.
"Goddess...!"
What came into view was a woman whose beauty could not be described even a fraction of the countless words used to describe a woman's appearance, such as dreamlike, peerless, celestial, moon-shaming, fish-sinking, and city-toppling beauty.
Her beauty is beyond description, even with the most beautiful words available.
It is so beautiful that one wonders if even the Creator, with all his painstaking efforts, could not have created it.
Even the most powerful supercomputer in the universe couldn't calculate the perfect data for every part of her body, which matches her appearance.
But such a body was born, and appeared right before Mo Tianyun's eyes.
Her body was surrounded by a halo of holy, pure white light, each ray of light formed by countless shimmering points of light coming together.
Behind it are ten pairs of holy white wings that form a pair of perfect and holy wings. The surface of the wings is covered with a golden halo, but the wings are not fully open, but rather folded up and slightly open.
It makes one imagine how sacred and magnificent it would be if the wings were fully open!
Looking further down, past her flawless, long, and fair legs, one discovers that the woman's delicate, translucent feet are not touching the ground at all; her entire body is suspended in mid-air.
"So beautiful! Even Princess Ilya, who is known as the most beautiful woman in the empire, is like a shimmering light compared to the sun, with an insurmountable gap between them."
Mo Tianyun seemed to have lost his soul, his eyes glazed over, and he exclaimed in surprise.
At the same time, my heart was pounding and racing.
The blood flow was also accelerating, and Mo Tianyun felt hot all over, gradually turning his face red.
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