Chapter 4: First Meeting (Part 2)
Mingyu: "I..."
"You don't need to submit the starship design." Mu Baixing retracted his hand, and this sentence made Mingyu's self-introduction, which was about to be opened, stuck in his throat again.
His voice was cold, like a handful of broken ice colliding.
The man frowned, looking unhappy, yet his aura was overwhelming. When his indifferent gaze fell on Mingyu, the designer subconsciously held his breath.
It's really a big deal when you wake up in a bad mood.
Mingyu thought at this moment that if this was not a virtual star network, Mingyu would even be afraid that the other party would bear a grudge and kill him with a knife.
The colorful hairs next to the designer, who had just been making a lot of noise, were caught in Mu Baixing's peripheral vision. They stood straight, their expressions serious, like soldiers undergoing an inspection. The atmosphere in the room became increasingly tense as they remained motionless, silent, and tense.
"The starship designers' contribution points will be distributed as usual during the competition," Mu Baixing spoke again. His tone was cold and direct, and his words were straightforward. "You don't need to do anything. Simply submit the design I provided to the competition under your authority."
Mingyu: ...
Mingyu came to the Star Navigation Competition because he wanted to satisfy his desire to design a starship.
What's more... he has no prejudice against chuunibyou, and he understands the anger of being woken up in the middle of sleep.
But I don’t like seeing people pretending to be so cool in front of me.
Mingyu looked at Mu Baixing and gave up explaining that he only passed the junior designer exam and was not a top student. Instead, he asked with a deliberately curious tone, "Oh. Do you have design drafts? How many? Did you buy them in advance? Did you change anything at all? Or did you redesign it yourself?"
During the Star Navigation Competition, each team needs to rely on the starship designed and manufactured by themselves to compete.
The design drawings provided by the starship designer will be transmitted to the competition supercomputer and reviewed according to standards by artificial intelligence. If the design drawings pass the feasibility assessment, the supercomputer will "manufacture" the starship according to the design drawings using algorithms and place it into the team's starship parking area. At the same time, a set of "appearance values" including starship durability, maximum speed, maximum load capacity, etc. will be given based on the design drawings.
Depending on the competition environment, mission structure, and specific restrictions imposed by the competition, teams will be required to design different starships, and the passing standards for AI designs will also change accordingly. Consequently, major design institutes and starship manufacturers are also paying close attention to this competition.
The Starship Competition does not prohibit the purchase of starship designs for reworking, but first, the team must sign the purchased design, and second, the designer must have made more than 30% modifications to the original design. Failure to do so will be considered a violation and the team will be disqualified.
Mingyu asked even though he knew the answer.
He spoke in a gentle tone, but Mu Boxing could hear the hint of anger in his words.
Not heavy, but noticeable.
The man raised his eyebrows slightly.
Standing next to Mingyu, Zimao almost bowed his head to the ground. He mustered up his courage, quietly extended a finger, and tugged at the hem of Mingyu's clothes. He turned his gaze, looking at Mingyu with a hint of worry, indicating that he shouldn't speak at this time.
Mu Baixing's gaze swept over Zimao, and the other party immediately let go and buried his head even lower.
Mu Baixing said calmly: "I drew the design."
Mingyu said "oh" and remained indifferent to Zimao's hint.
He looked calm, but the palms of his hands hanging by his sides were actually full of sweat. He stared into Mu Baixing's eyes, and kept telling himself in his heart that there was nothing to be afraid of.
Just a middle school syndrome!
But Mu Baixing's gaze on him seemed to carry a thousand-pound weight, as if it was going to force him to lower his head and look away.
Mingyu didn't know how this Chuunibyou guy's acting was so good. It was even scarier than the award-winning leading actor in that literary and artistic starry sky movie.
He pursed his lips, his heart beating rapidly. Even though he had been hypnotizing himself continuously since the beginning, there was still a voice in his heart shouting wildly, shouting at him to look away quickly, to avoid this terrifying man.
However, Mingyu has been feeling depressed since he received a call from his mother at noon today. Now that he has taken the initiative to confront Mu Baixing, it is even more impossible for him to show weakness easily.
He then took a deep breath and decided to continue the provocation.
"But you didn't register for dual entry, so you're not a starship designer." Ming Yu steadied his voice and looked directly at Mu Baixing. He applied what he had learned, speaking in a similar, straightforward tone.
"The Starship Competition allows participants to have multiple identities. You're not a registered starship designer because you don't have a starship designer qualification certificate, right? You don't even have a basic certificate, so you can't even pass the review."
Ming Yu curled his lip. "Can a design like this 'designer' draw up be used to participate in the Starship Competition? The starship will fall apart if it takes one step out."
Colorful hair: "..."
Each of these younger brothers lowered their heads, but a few of them couldn't help but let out a gasp.
Their inner thoughts at this moment were surprisingly consistent: anyone who dared to mock the boss under such low pressure, no matter what his outward personality was, was definitely a ruthless person at heart.
From now on, you have to call me brother!
Mu Baixing's expression didn't change at all, he just continued looking at Mingyu with that indifferent look.
Mingyu swallowed imperceptibly. A layer of cold sweat covered not only his palms but also his back. He continued, "Besides, since you're not the team's designer, the team's integrity will have to rely on the designers randomly matched by the competition... like me."
"I signed up for the Star Navigation Competition just to join in the fun. If I quit now because I'm in a bad mood, your team will be eliminated directly due to insufficient number of people... Oh..."
Before he finished speaking, Mu Baixing suddenly smiled.
The ice suddenly broke, revealing a sense of unrestrained and unrestrained energy beneath the hard and cold shell.
It's an indescribable surprise.
"Okay." Mu Baixing raised his lips, the pressure in his eyes fading as he looked away. His smile was a touch amused as he leaned back against the door. He lowered his head and pressed the communication bracelet on his wrist, which displayed a light screen. He twisted it and pushed it in front of Mingyu.
"Design draft." Mu Baixing's smile quickly faded, and he said casually, "You can modify it as you see fit."
This is indeed a starship design.
The manuscript projected onto the three-dimensional screen was so detailed, with a crisscross of colorful dots and lines, that even a single glance would make the average person dizzy. Mingyu reached out to hold onto the edge of the screen, ignoring everything else and looking towards the starship's cockpit.
"Exploration-type starships." Mu Baixing said slowly, "This is the most common type of starship that appeared in the first round of the Star Navigation Competition in previous years."
"No need to remind me, I can see it." Mingyu still remembered arguing with him, but his mind was already focused on the design draft.
"Pilot and co-pilot seats, five observer positions... Why is a starship equipped with so many external detectors?" Generally speaking, except for special starships that need to record energy maps, most starships only carry one detector, or no detector at all. The starship's navigation path in space and the energy conversion around it are all detected by observers.
Awakened humans who serve as starship observers are called Navigators. Their mental powers are highly sensitive and extensible, with accuracy and detection range exceeding those of ordinary detectors.
Mingyu was deeply confused. He pulled the light screen closer to himself and carefully enlarged it to look at the wiring diagram connecting the cockpit to the central processing room of the aircraft carrier.
Exploration starships are a very common type of starship. Because the capabilities of existing exploration starships can already meet the needs of 99% of exploration missions, their design has remained relatively unchanged in recent years, forming a fixed pattern.
The basic structure of this starship design is a very classic M10 exploration starship style, but the direction of its starship routes is hugely different from all the exploration starships Mingyu knows.
"The direction of this line..." Mingyu was silent for a long time. He went over the starship line again and again in his mind. Finally, he looked up at Mu Baixing in disbelief. "The mental sensing line of the driver's seat is not connected to the five observer positions?!"
He moved the blueprint and his eyes widened: "There's no mental sensing circuit at all in the observation hand position?!"
Mu Baixing crossed his arms, said nothing, and just looked at Mingyu.
Mingyu: “!!”
He realized something, turned to look at the colorful hair next to him, and muttered, "You are... you are non-awakened humans without spiritual power?!"
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