Chapter 26 LUCE
In the deputy commander's office on the fifty-second floor of the Central Star Region Military's Third Legion's Capital Star Headquarters, Ming's mother, Zhao Ying, ended the call with Ming Yu, admonished her useless and clueless youngest son, and returned to the report on the screen.
This is the Star Navigation Talent Discovery Report submitted by her subordinate, the person in charge of the Star Navigation Competition in the Third Legion, to the higher-ups of the Legion.
On the first page of the report, there was a list of the unknown dark horse teams that her subordinates thought were most worthy of attention in the first qualifying round.
"Colorful Team." Zhao Ying sat at her desk, carefully reading the report. "Strongly recommend tracking down and contacting the Colorful Team's starship designer."
The report included the charging time of the colorful starship's Lambda cannon, a clip of the competition at that time, and the starship's speed in Zone Z.
Zhao Ying turned the page and saw the second page of the report contained the information of Mu Baixing, the pilot of the Colorful Team.
His subordinates rated Mu Boxing's mental power as around BA level, with a burst of power potentially reaching S level. However, as there was only data from one match, the data was not necessarily accurate.
She casually turned the report back to the first page.
Cultivating top-tier awakened humans requires considerable resources. The Third Legion possesses a fleet comprised entirely of A-class awakened humans. In the future, they will also incorporate the twin S-class vessels of Feren and her son Mingyan. Their need for pilots is minimal.
In comparison, it was the starship designer named LUCE.
Zhao Ying and Ming Zhilang have always hoped to further improve the performance of the legion's starships, but their scientific research team is not strong and only maintains a superficial relationship with the design institute.
In recent years, only Song Lan, whom Ming Yan had met, had any decent skills. Besides Song Lan, the Corps had never produced a truly capable designer.
They need to be exposed to the colorful LUCE.
Zhao Ying replayed the video of the colorful Lambda cannon firing, and even felt her blood boiling.
She hoped that such a designer could join the Third Legion! Not only would they help them improve the performance of ordinary Lambda cannon barrels, but they could also further enhance the strength of those Lambda cannons, adding complex circuits, and upgrading them to more advanced spiritual weapons, shortening their charging time.
If this could be achieved, the Third Legion's strength would be elevated to a new level! Breaking free from the stalemate with the Mu family, it would become the strongest legion standing out among the six major legions!
With her imagination about the future of the Ming family, Zhao Ying carefully read LUCE's identity information, and then frowned again.
This designer was actually different from other contestants in the Star Navigation Competition who hoped to be recruited by major forces. She chose to keep all the information confidential... Even though she was the deputy commander of the Third Legion, she did not have the authority to query or read it.
Zhao Ying thought for a moment and tapped the table with her finger.
Not seeking fame for yourself means you have real talent and knowledge.
Maybe it will take some effort to win them over after contact.
"Connect to the Information Department." She thought for a moment, frowned, and made a call. "Try to access the designer registration network or the Starship Competition network and find a starship designer named LUCE. His level... should be above Senior Starship Designer."
"Don't let the other party notice."
She didn't want to offend the designer.
At the same time, Mingyu, who had only taken the junior designer exam and had just parted ways with Zhao Ying, was standing in the Star Navigation Competition lounge with mixed feelings.
The 50% contribution rate in the first round of qualifiers was obviously not the system's default value, but was manually adjusted by team captain Mu Baixing.
Mingyu was in a complicated mood.
He took the money without feeling guilty.
But then I remembered that Mu Baixing and his companions weren't living well off in the Outer Harbor Star Region. It seemed like their monthly income was always stretched to the limit. Mu Baixing couldn't even afford anesthesia when he was injured, and the colorful hairy guys didn't even have a choice of nutrient solution flavors...
"Ding—the second round of the Star Navigation Competition has been released—"
The characters on the lounge screen scrolled. The settlement notice of the previous round was quickly refreshed and changed to the rules of the second round.
"Round 2: Escape from the Death Star Ocean. Countdown: 208 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds—"
Mingyu reached out and clicked on the detailed information of the question. At the same time, a light flashed in the lounge, and a figure solidified in the void.
"Brother LU!"
Blue Hair appeared in the lounge, wearing maintenance work clothes and looked like he had just come out of the maintenance room.
"You're online!" Blue Hair said with a smile. "The boss and the red, orange, and green brothers have all gone out to sea, leaving me and A Zi to look after the house. A Zi is still working on orders for the repair shop. I saw that the time for the second round of competition questions to be distributed was approaching, so I came up to take a look."
Mingyu: "Repair shop?"
Bluefur hummed.
"We're an exploration team registered in Outer Harbor, but we're poor and the land we rent is small, so we set up a repair shop to make some money," he said. "Usually, the boss and his team take orders at the Explorer Affairs Hall or go out into the alien world to look for resources and exchange them for money. Xiao Zi and I work in the repair shop."
Mingyu said "oh" and imagined a factory building that was just big enough to accommodate a starship and a row of dormitories squeezed in behind it.
Mingyu was curious: "Where do you usually go on your voyages?"
"We've been everywhere, the farthest we've ever been is beyond the Star Line," Lanmao said casually. "This time we're close, just outside the Outer Harbor Star Region. There's a dangerous sand star belt there, and a starship took the wrong path and entered it, trapped in a sinking energy flow and unable to escape. They issued a high-priced rescue request, so the boss took the team there." Lanmao spoke casually, moving closer to Mingyu to look at the question screen. "Escape from the Dead Star Sea. Each team has a single map, and there's no competition. As long as you escape before the central star energy field collapses, you'll advance... The number of resources you carry is equivalent to the number of resource blocks you harvested in the first round."
Blue Hair: "...Wow...it really has the influence of the first round..."
Ming Yu hummed, "The available material resources provided by the system are also unlocked based on the ranking of the previous round of competition. In addition, there are high-level materials available for collection and utilization on the competition map. There are three repair stations on the competition map, but the repair status of the repair stations cannot be guaranteed..."
He read the competition instructions while pulling down the screen. "Based on our ranking, all common materials can be used. Let me see, most of the intermediate materials can be used, but there are no intermediate or advanced materials."
"Ah! That's no big deal!" Blue Hair said optimistically, "Our team is used to being poor anyway! There aren't many resources here in the outer harbor. We're professionals at escaping!"
Mingyu hummed, thought for a moment, and then asked Lanmao, "Do you have your boss's usual star navigation information for me to see?"
Bluefur shook his head.
"The starship we bought was an old model with small instrument storage capacity. It received cosmic energy information and was constantly updated. There were no records of the starship's operation. The starship was almost scrapped. After the boss drew up the blueprints and modified it, the brothers spent a lot of time repairing it before it could be operated."
Mingyu: “…”
Mingyu thought of the starship designed by Mu Baixing, which had extremely low safety standards, and also thought of the complex and ever-changing universe and starry sea in the outer port.
Mingyu asked politely, "...How long has your exploration team been established? How many times have you set sail?"
He wanted to know how many times these people had committed suicide!
Lanmao counted on his fingers.
"It's only been established for a little over a year. When we go out to sea, sometimes we just come back and leave again, and sometimes we stay in the outer harbor for a month to repair the starship."
He recalled his life over the past year and said with emotion, "Thankfully, the boss took us out of Brother Dao's power and started working on our own. Life is much better now! Brother LU, you don't know, Brother Dao's side is really shady. He's busy from morning till night and can't even get a full meal. Hey, Brother Dao was unlucky to pick up the boss, but for us, it's a blessing that we've cultivated for eight lifetimes!"
From his description, Mingyu imagined the scene of Mu Baixing with a stern face, fighting against ten people alone, and a few others with colorful hair.
It's a bit childish.
Mingyu couldn't help but smile, but he got back to the point and asked, "When your boss flies a starship... besides being incredibly powerful, what other habits does he have?"
fierce.
It is simply a highly concise summary of Mu Boxing's operations in the previous game.
Lanmao stopped talking and looked at Mingyu in amazement.
"Wow, Brother LU, you're truly a cultured person!" he exclaimed admiringly. "That's exactly how it feels! The boss is so awesome driving a starship. It's so fast! And the turns are so fast! The first time I got on one, I vomited several times!"
"And every time he went out and came back, the starship looked like it was about to be scrapped. It was so tragic! Even the gun barrels were burned out!"
"Brother LU, if you're considering starship design... otherwise... add some more gun barrels for the boss to build?"
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